A mother and her 6-year-old twin daughters were found dead in their home. The gruesome discovery was made by the children’s father and the police are investigating the matter, which suggests a case of murder/suicide. The incident took place in Pontarlier, in the Doubs region of France. “The hypothesis that the two girls were killed and the mother committed suicide remains a possibility, but it is too early to be certain,” prosecutor Etienne Manteaux told AFP. said.
The bodies of the 51-year-old woman and her two daughters, who were about to turn seven, were found in the family home in the municipality of Grand’Combe-Châteleu, on the Swiss border. “A judge and a physician from the public prosecutor’s office went to the scene together with investigators from the investigation department of the Franche-Comté Gendarmerie,” the prosecutor said. he said and added that autopsies will be performed.
According to L’Est Républicain, the basis of this move, which may have been planned in advance, may be the woman’s pain at being separated from her husband, an unacceptable divorce that led her to kill her daughters before marriage. outside of life. Yesterday morning (Monday, November 27), the principal of the girls’ school was surprised to see that the little ones did not come and informed their father. Upon the woman’s notice, the man went to his ex-partner’s locked house and waited for the fire brigade and gendarmerie to arrive. Police found the mother unconscious in the living room of the house. Two little girls lay lifeless on the bed. Unfortunately, emergency services could only conclude that three people had died. The father, who was in shock, was intervened and taken to the hospital.
The military investigated the couple’s background and discovered that the man, who worked in a watch factory in Switzerland, decided to separate from his wife in 2021 after twenty years of being together. The prosecutor underlined that a conflictual separation “badly accepted by the mother of the family” ended in court. A judge’s decision in 2022 determined that custody should be awarded to the woman, with the father having visitation rights. Legally, things seemed to have calmed down since then. From an emotional standpoint, perhaps that wasn’t the case.
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