The bodies of a mother and her three children were discovered on Monday in a state of decomposition in their apartment in Sannois (Val-d'Oise), we learn from the emergency services and a police source.
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The firefighters, alerted by neighbors who had not heard from the family for several weeks, intervened around 6:00 p.m. on the fourth floor of a small building in this city located northwest of Paris. Inside the apartment, they discovered four decaying bodies. This is a 44-year-old mother of Haitian origin and her three children, "
two boys and a girl,
" said a police source.
At this stage of the investigations, the investigators favor the track of a carbon monoxide poisoning or that of an "
orchestrated suicide
" by the mother of the family, who lived alone with her children from different unions, said this source. . "
It's not villainous,
" she adds straight away. The departmental security of Val-d'Oise was seized of the investigation.