Police probing the lethal group leap from a constructing in Montreux says the household was gripped by conspiracy theories.
A French household gripped by conspiracy theories jumped one after the opposite from their seventh-floor condo within the Swiss city of Montreux, police investigating the thriller stated on Tuesday.
Solely a 15-year-old boy survived the tragedy final Thursday close to the on line casino within the plush city on Lake Geneva. He's in a coma in a steady situation in hospital.
The Vaud regional police introduced on Tuesday that their findings “make it potential to rule out the intervention of a 3rd social gathering and counsel that each one the victims jumped from the balcony one after the opposite”.
Police and prosecutors are engaged on the speculation of “collective suicide”.
A person – aged 40, his 41-year-old spouse, her twin sister, the couple’s eight-year-old daughter and their boy plunged greater than 20 metres from the condo, the place all of them lived “withdrawn from society”, in accordance with police.
Timeline of occasions
Investigators stated two officers knocked on the condo door at 6:15am (04:15 GMT), wanting to talk with the daddy in regards to the home-schooling preparations for his son.
A voice requested who was on the door, however then stated nothing additional. Unable to enter, the officers left.
Shortly earlier than 7:00am (05:00 GMT), all 5 jumped from the balcony throughout the area of 5 minutes.
Police detected no hint of a battle, seemingly confirming that they jumped of their very own accord. A step ladder was discovered on the balcony.
“Earlier than or through the occasions, no witnesses, together with the 2 cops current on the spot from 6:15 am and the passers-by on the foot of the constructing, heard the slightest noise or cry coming from the condo or the balcony,” police stated.
“Technical investigations present no warning indicators of such an act,” they added, noting nonetheless that “because the begin of the pandemic, the household was very concerned with conspiracy and survivalist theories.”
The household lived in digital self-sufficiency having amassed a well-organised stockpile of assorted meals, taking on a lot of their dwelling area however enabling them to see out a serious disaster.
Solely the mom’s twin sister labored exterior the house, whereas neither the mom nor the eight-year-old woman, who didn't attend college, had been registered with the native authorities.
“All these components counsel … worry of the authorities interfering of their lives,” the police assertion stated.
Granddaughters of Algerian author
France’s Journal du Dimanche newspaper stated the daddy, Eric David, grew up in a rich a part of Marseille and attended the Ecole Polytechnique, some of the prestigious faculties within the nation.
The dual sisters, Nasrine and Narjisse Feraoun, grew up in a household of 5 youngsters, all educated on the elite Lycee Henri-IV in Paris, the weekly stated. The mom was a dentist and her sister an ophthalmologist.
The newspaper additionally stated the twins had been granddaughters of Algerian novelist Mouloud Feraoun.
A detailed pal of the French thinker Albert Camus, Feraoun was assassinated in Algiers in 1962 by a far-right French pro-colonial group.
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