They were found in an advanced state of decomposition. The bodies of a mother and her two children, adults, were discovered in a Pontet housing, a town vaucluse Bordering Avignon, said the city’s prosecutor, Florence Galtier, in Paris, this Wednesday.
A preliminary investigation was opened for “assassination”, continued the prosecutor, which said that the investigations were entrusted to the gendarmerie research brigade in Avignon.
The family last time in March
According to the Avignon prosecutor, it was the gendarmes, who carried out a rental expulsion operation, which discovered the three bodies. They had come to accompany a bailiff who was to expulsion from the family, According to our colleagues from Provence.
“The first observations made made it possible to establish that the official occupants of the premises are a mother and her two adult children,” said the public prosecutor of Avignon, Florence Galtier.
Still according to our colleagues, the three bodies were found putrefactionlying on the ground on mattresses. It was in March 2025 that the family would have been seen for the last time by the owner of the property, who lives in the same building, adds the newspaper.
The investigation must “determine the exact circumstances and causes of the death of the three people,” added the prosecutor, which specifies that an autopsy of the bodies was ordered by the prosecution.
