POLICE in Italy, Switzerland and France are searching for six-year-old twin girls who disappeared after their father died in an apparent suicide.
The body of Matthias Kaspar Schepp, 43, a Canadian-born resident of Switzerland, was found on Thursday.
Authorities believe Schepp, who was separated from his wife, threw himself under a train. The twins, Alessia and Livia, lived in Lausanne with their mother, Irina Lucidi, 44. Schepp picked them up from their mother’s home for the weekend but police say he took them when he left his home in St Sulpice, a suburb of Lausanne, on January 30.
Swiss authorities alerted all European police that the girls were missing on January 30.
Schepp sent his wife a postcard from Marseilles saying he could not live without the girls.
