A man and his daughter aged less than one year were discovered dead Sunday evening February 14 at their home in Vivier-au-Court, near Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes), by the mother of the child, the circumstances of the drama still to be clarified, we learned from a source close to the investigation.
The
"corpses of a father and his daughter, just under a year old"
were found in the early evening, the source said.
It was the mother of the child who sounded the alert, before being taken care of by the emergency services and taken to hospital, she added.
"This is not a couple that we particularly knew
,
"
said this source.
The first findings were underway on Sunday evening and the investigation entrusted to the Sedan search brigade.
According to a source close to the rescue, two other children from a first union of the mother of the girl have been sheltered with neighbors.