Overview

• The Gap prosecutor’s office has opened a voluntary homicide investigation and is treating the case as a family tragedy.
• A family member discovered the bodies Sunday evening of a couple in their seventies and their 35-year-old daughter at their home in La Bâtie-Neuve and alerted emergency services.
• Gendarmerie des Hautes-Alpes investigators and two criminal-technical specialists are conducting on-site examinations with support from a Grenoble medical examiner.
• Investigators will carry out autopsies Wednesday in Gap to clarify the victims’ causes of death and the sequence of events.
• La Bâtie-Neuve, a quiet village near Gap with no prior history of violent crime, illustrates the reach of domestic violence even in rural France.