Infanticide in Annecy: the wanted father, a call for witnesses launched
Two weeks after the discovery of the body of a ten-year-old girl in her house in Haute-Savoie, her father remains nowhere to be found. The Annecy police and prosecutor’s office are appealing for witnesses.
The national gendarmerie and the public prosecutor’s office in Annecy (Haute-Savoie) decided to launch a call for witnesses, this Wednesday, May 25, to find a 51-year-old father, almost two weeks after the discovery of the body of his daughter. ten years old, found asphyxiated at her home in Haute-Savoie.
“The girl’s father is wanted throughout the national territory. He would be likely to fly aboard a white Citroën Jumpy registered EK-208-ZL and accompanied by an American staff dog, ”said the Haute-Savoie gendarmerie in its call for witnesses.
The suspect likely to leave the territory by sea
For its part, the prosecution of the Annecy court announced that a judicial investigation has been opened at the criminal center of the court for “counts of murder of a minor under the age of 15 and destruction by dangerous means”. According to information from Europe 1, the father is a former sports shooter who fled with a handgun, even if he has no declared weapon.
– Gendarmerie of Haute-Savoie (@Gendarmerie_074) May 25, 2022
The 50-year-old, who is already the subject of an international arrest warrant, is of “European type”, measures 1.76 m and wears “long brown hair” as well as “a long and thick slightly graying beard” . The gendarmes of Haute-Savoie are looking for all the testimonies of people allowing to locate the individual who has “a very good level of sailing and would be likely to leave the territory by the sea”, can we read in the call for witnesses which is accompanied by two photos of the man, as well as those of his vehicle and his dog.
A toll-free number was created with the aim that the father would be seen by someone (0800.97.10.71). On May 12, it was the older brother of the victim, born in 2011, who discovered the body at the family home, located in Veigy-Foncenex, a town located on the Swiss border, according to the Annecy prosecutor’s office.
The house had been partially burnt down but the girl’s autopsy later concluded that she had “obviously not died from the fire but from mechanical asphyxiation”.