Several people were found dead in an “unsanitary” apartment in Grenoble on Friday evening. According to the first elements of the investigation, it could be a mother and her four children aged 3 to 12 years. An investigation was entrusted to the departmental security services.
Five people, including four children aged 3 to 12, were found dead in a Grenoble apartment on Friday evening, police and the deputy public prosecutor of Grenoble reported on Saturday. “At 10:14 p.m., the firefighters informed the police that they had entered an apartment located rue des Frênes” in the La Villeneuve district, south of Grenoble, following reports of people who did not respond to calls said Deputy Prosecutor Boris Duffau.
Children aged 3 to 12 years old
On the spot, the firefighters discovered “in an unsanitary apartment five decomposing bodies”, he added, specifying that they are four children aged 3, 8, 10 and 12 and a woman. 39 years old. For his part, a police source told AFP that it could be “a mother and her children”.
The first elements of the investigation “suggest a homicide for the children then a suicide for the mother, all by absorption of dangerous drugs”, specified this source, adding that this hypothesis “remains to be confirmed”.
“Given the state of the bodies, the identities could not yet be verified with certainty.” A medical examiner was dispatched to the scene and “autopsies will be carried out to determine the causes of death”, added Mr. Duffau. An investigation was entrusted to the departmental security services.