A woman and her two young children were found drowned in a swimming pool Tuesday evening near Montpellier (Hérault).
According to the Metropolitan, the mother, aged about thirty, and her two children of 2 and 4 years old, were found around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday evening, in the swimming pool of the family house still under construction in the residential area of the Plain, in Juvignac. The firefighters and doctors and resuscitators of Smur failed to revive her and their death by drowning was recorded 40 minutes later.
The father was found in shock. It was he who, returning home late, discovered the bodies and called for help. He was with his partner and the two men took the bodies out of the water. The father was taken in by the gendarmes of the Castelnau-le-Lez company, responsible for the investigation.
No break-in observed on the premises
Technicians from the criminal identification cell of the Hérault gendarmerie group went to the site to take samples and the bodies will be autopsied this Wednesday or tomorrow Thursday to try to understand the circumstances and the time of death.
“A first external examination of the bodies did not reveal any suspicious traces. No particular trace of struggle, or break-in was also observed on the spot "indicated this Wednesday morning the public prosecutor Fabrice Bélargent.
