EU Police Expand Search For Twins Missing Since Canadian-Born Father’s Suicide
Posted February 7, 2011 12:34 pm.
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Swiss police are searching Lake Geneva by helicopter for missing twin girls in a mystery deepened by their Canadian-born father’s apparent suicide.
Police say they have no firm evidence where the six-year-olds, Alessia and Livia, were since their father Matthias Schepp had them at his home in a Lausanne suburb Jan. 30.
Some 40 Swiss police investigators and French and Italian police were broadening the international hunt dubbed Operation Gemelle.
Schepp was separated from his wife and is believed to have thrown himself under a train in southern Italy where his body was found by a railway station Thursday night.
French police say Schepp bought three tickets to catch a ferry from Marseilles to Corsica but it’s not clear if they boarded it.
