New information concerning the drama that took place in Finistère was revealed by AFP on Monday, October 31. Last October, the mother of the family had made a report to the gendarmerie.
It is a macabre discovery that investigators made on Sunday, October 30. In a house in Carantec, in Finistère, a man, a woman and their two children were found dead in their home. This Monday, October 31, new information was published by AFP. As the investigation begins, the gendarmes discovered that the mother of the family had gone to the police station on October 19 to make a report. She explained that she had received a slap from her husband a few days earlier, on October 8. During a press briefing, Camille Miansoni, the public prosecutor specified that she had “considered (at that time) that it is not appropriate to take legal action on this, but she prefers to report it“. This event was taken very seriously by the investigators who looked into the daily life of the couple. Both are going through a very complicated period since they were about to part ways. The mother of the family intended to move in with her parents and this slap would have been, according to her words, the first act of violence of her husband against her. “The father of the family would undoubtedly have been heard in the days to come on the drama had not happened“, said the public prosecutor. But what happened at the couple’s home?
As soon as this macabre discovery was made, an investigation was launched. The goal ? Bring answers to their loved ones. As a reminder, the bodies of the girls, aged 8 and 11 respectively, were found, “each in her bed and in her room“, noted Free lunch. That of the 38-year-old wife was “in the marital bed“and the 41-year-old man was”hanged downstairs in the stairwell“. The family dog was also found dead. Has the father of the family committed the irreparable? Quickly, the investigators and the medical examiner went around the couple’s home and, according to the first findings, there were not “no evidence of external injury or use of a weapon on any of the bodies“, specified Camille Miansoni. The first elements made it possible to highlight the fact that the mother and her two daughters would have been poisoned. Thus, the bodies of the victims were transported to the forensic institute of Brest to be autopsied there. Analyzes will be conducted to determine if there is “traces of harmful substances that could have been administered“ and the results are expected by the end of the week. A intentional homicide investigation was opened and entrusted to the research brigade of the gendarmerie of Plourin-les-Morlaix in order to find out what could have happened to this family.
Family deceased in Finistère: who gave the alert?
It was a team of gendarmes from the Plourin-lès-Morlaix company, accompanied by firefighters, who discovered the bodies of this family around 10 a.m. on Sunday, October 30. In a press release released in the evening, the public prosecutor revealed that the alert was given by the mother of the young woman. “She had not been able to reach her daughter since Saturday October 29“, we could read. Regarding this family, the father was called Gaétan Urien, his wife was Florence and their granddaughters, Romane and Izia-Marie. The investigation is continuing in order to shed light on the circumstances of this terrible affair.