- Father found his three young children stabbed to death in their Alpine home
- The mother, who suffered from depression, is the main suspect.
- She left a note before disappearing.
A horrified French father returned home yesterday to find his family’s three children had been brutally stabbed to death.
The father, who has not yet been identified, found his children, two two-year-old boys, 11 and a 13-year-old girl, dead in their home in Taninges, a ski town near France’s border with Switzerland, with several stabbing on Tuesday around noon.
The mother of the family, a 45-year-old woman who, according to local media, was suffering from depression, is currently missing and is considered a key suspect in the children’s tragic death, which is now being investigated as an “intentional homicide.” “.
According to the French newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré, he left a letter and then headed towards the mountains surrounding the city. It is currently unknown what the letter said.
Le Parisien reported that 60 French police officers are searching for Hear, supported by helicopters and diving squads.
This photograph shows a view of the house where three children were found dead in Taninges, on November 13, 2024.
French gendarmes stand guard at the entrance to a street, near the place where three children were found dead, in Taninges, eastern France, on November 12, 2024.
French gendarmes stand guard at the street entrance near the place where three children were found dead in Taninges, November 12, 2024.
Police are currently interviewing relatives of the family. The investigation has been handed over to the Bonneville prosecutor’s office.
The shocking murder in the Alps comes after two young children were found decapitated in a bathtub on the French island of Guadeloupe last week.
The mutilated bodies of the four-year-old and 13-month-old brothers were discovered by their distraught father in their family home.
The children’s mother, the main murder suspect, was found naked and wandering the streets by two police officers after the alarm was raised.
According to French outlet Le Parisien, the woman, believed to be in her forties, spoke incoherently and was unable to explain the reasons for her actions when approached by police.
According to prosecutor Caroline Talbo, the woman was initially detained and later released due to her mental state, and has been hospitalized since.