Switzerland: the police favor the track of the collective suicide of the French family

Europe 1 with AFP 12:20 p.m., March 29, 2022

The police favor Tuesday the thesis of the collective suicide last Thursday of the same French family in Montreux in Switzerland, whose five members would have thrown themselves one by one from the balcony of the 7th floor of their building, according to a press release.

The investigation "suggests that all the victims jumped from the balcony one after the other", specifies the police of the canton of Vaud.

Of the five members, only the son survived the fall and he is currently in a coma.

All five people fell within five minutes

The 40-year-old father, his wife, his twin sister and the couple's 8-year-old daughter have died.

The son remains hospitalized in a coma but in stable condition.

The tragedy occurred on March 24 in a district of Montreux, close to the casino of this chic city on the shores of Lake Geneva.

According to the investigation, the five people fell from a height of more than twenty meters, one after the other, shortly before 7 a.m. (then 6 a.m. GMT), within an interval of five minutes.

The investigators, who found a stepladder on the balcony from which the members of this family jumped, could not detect any trace of a struggle.

"Before or during the events, no witness, including the two gendarmes present on the spot from 6:15 a.m. and the passers-by at the bottom of the building, heard the slightest noise or cry coming from the apartment or the balcony. “, underlines the press release.

A family interested in "conspiracy theses"

"Technical investigations show no warning signs of such an act," said the police, noting however that "since the start of the pandemic, the family was very interested in conspiracy and survival theses".

The family lived in virtual self-sufficiency, withdrawn from society.

Only the mother's twin sister worked outside the home, say the investigators.

Neither the mother nor the little girl were registered with the authorities and the latter did not go to school.

His big brother was supposed to be home schooled and it was a home verification procedure by two police officers, shortly before the tragedy, which seems to have led to the act.

"All of these elements suggest, among the members of this family, the fear of interference by the authority in their lives", underlines the press release, which does not give the identity of the victims.

According to the French regional daily Nice Matin, the father, Éric David, grew up in Marseille in one of the most privileged residences of the city and the two twin sisters, Nasrine and Narjisse Feraoun, grew up within a family of five children. who were all educated at the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.