The first elements of the investigation suggest a homicide for the children and a suicide for the mother. The father of the family has been incarcerated since April 2021.
Five people, including four children, were found dead in a Grenoble apartment late Friday, police and the deputy public prosecutor of Grenoble reported on Saturday. “At 10:14 p.m., firefighters notified the police that they had entered an apartment on rue des Frênesin the district of La Villeneuve, south of Grenoble, following reports of people who did not respond to calls, said deputy prosecutor Boris Duffau.
On the spot, the firefighters discoveredin an unsanitary apartment five decomposing bodies“, he added, specifying that they are four children aged 3, 8, 10 and 12 and a 39-year-old woman. It could be “a mother and her children“, told AFP a police source. The bodies were all found in the same room of the apartment: the 4 children (3 boys and a girl) were all lying on the mattress of a mezzanine, and the body of the mother was located under it.
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The father currently in prison
According to initial reports, the mother was seen by neighbors for the last time during the first week of the winter holidays. The first elements of the investigationsuggest a homicide for the children then a suicide for the mother, all by taking dangerous drugs“, said this source, adding that this hypothesis “remains to be confirmed“. According to Boris Duffau, the father is a 37-year-old man who has been incarcerated since April 2021 “in execution of a prison sentence“. “He has not received any temporary absence since his incarceration and has received no visits to the visiting room.“says the assistant prosecutor. Given the seriousness of the facts, the prison administration has implemented a specific support protocol intended to prevent any suicidal act by the person concerned.
“Given the state of the bodies, the identities could not yet be verified with certainty“, but a medical examiner was dispatched to the scene and”autopsies will be performed to determine the cause of deathadded Boris Duffau. These will take place on Monday morning. An investigation was entrusted to the departmental security services.
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