SWISS POLICE SAY THEY have been unable to confirm any sightings of missing twin girls since the six-year-olds were seen playing with a neighbour’s child on 30 January, and now believe they may never have left Switzerland.
Police in Switzerland, France and Italy have been involved in a coordinated search for the girls for weeks and Interpol issued a public alert for the children earlier this month.
Twins Alessia and Livia Schepp were abducted by their father Matthias on 30 January. He threw himself under a train in Italy on 3 February.
The search had focused on Corsica, where authorities believed Matthias Schepp had taken the girls, but Swiss police now say that witness reports of a Swiss-reg station wagon on the island have been confusing the investigation.
Police spokesperson Jean-Christophe Sauterel told the AP that police want the driver of a second Audi A6 seen on the island at the same time as one believed to have been driven by Schepp to come forward.
A letter which Schepp sent to the girls’ mother on the day he died surfaced last week. In it, he wrote that the girls were “resting in peace” and “did not suffer”, but police have said no possibilities have been ruled out of the investigation – including the chance that the girls might still be alive.
Police say that they believe Schepp deliberately destroyed his GPS system so that they could not trace his movements after finding his body.
[caption id="attachment_86332" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Image of the twin girls distributed by Interpol"]
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