The truth behind the family’s death revealed – no crime behind it

A year has passed since a family fell from an apartment in Montreux, Switzerland. Now the police are closing the case that shocked the country, this after it was established that it was a collective suicide, the BBC reports. It was on March 24 last year that an eight-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy, their mother and father, as well as the mother’s sister, fell from their apartment on the seventh floor. The 15-year-old boy survived the fall, but was seriously injured. Remaining family members died. After the investigation has now been completed, the police have been able to confirm that the family was not subjected to any crime in connection with the incident. Forensic examinations show that there was no struggle in connection with the incident, and no traces of drugs have been found either, writes the BBC. Conspiracy theories are believed to be behind the suicides What has emerged, however, is that the mother and her sister were deeply involved in survival and conspiracy theories, something that is believed to have caused the collective suicide. According to Swiss investigators, they were suspicious of the government and local authorities, and raised the children to believe the world was a hostile place. The Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are also said to have helped strengthen the women’s convictions, and searches of the apartment have also revealed that the suicide was carefully planned and rehearsed. In connection with the deaths, the police also found large quantities of food, medicine and hygiene items in the apartment – carefully stored and organized. The family is said to have rarely left the apartment and the children were homeschooled. Police visits believed to have influenced It was on the morning of March 24 that Montreux police came to the apartment to remind the father of a meeting with local education authorities to discuss his son’s home education. But the police were never allowed in, and minutes later, four out of five family members were dead. The family moved to Switzerland from France two years before the incident. According to the police, they should not have shown any signs that they were considering suicide.

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