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French police were checking on Saturday a report of a mystery woman who was seen with missing Swiss six-year-old twins and their father in Corsica before he committed suicide.
An investigator said they were 'taking seriously' the account of Olga Orneck, a resident of the small ferry port of Propriano, who described to AFP how the four had attracted her attention on the morning of Feb 1 as she went to buy her newspaper.
'I noticed them because Propriano is a small village where strangers are spotted immediately, especially at this time of year,' she said in a telephone interview.
Ms Orneck said the girls wore pink track-suits and parkas and were eating croissants or chocolate pastries. One had spectacles and a pink and white hat.
'The woman was aged 45-50 with brown hair and was wearing a black three-quarter-length coat and white trousers,' she said. 'She wasn't from Propriano or I'd have recognised her.' Both the woman and the man, whom Ms Orneck identified as Matthias Schepp immediately from a photograph afterwards, were also eating croissants and chatting as if they knew each other well, she said.
Ms Orneck contacted the police in response to an appeal for witnesses after Schepp threw himself under a train in southern Italy two days later, having written to his estranged wife saying he had also killed the girls.
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