Grenoble - The man who guided a hike in the French Alps in which nine children were swept to their deaths by an avalanche was taken into custody in the Alpine town of Gap yesterday, police said.
Mr Daniel Forte (42) had been questioned on Saturday in an investigation ordered by state prosecutors into whether there was criminal wrongdoing in the deaths of the nine children and two of the adults who accompanied them on the trek. The children are to be buried today.