The five members of the
Of the five members of the family, only a 15-year-old adolescent survived, who is in a coma. The others, a man, his wife and his twin sister, as well as an 8-year-old girl, died following throwing themselves from the balcony of the house.
According to police, members of the family climbed up the balcony of their flat using a small ladder before jumping off, one by one.
The investigation “rules out the intervention of a third party and suggests that all the victims jumped from the balcony one following another”, The Police of the canton of Vaud reported Tuesday, five days following the tragedy that occurred in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva.
The investigators managed to reconstruct the chronology of the events. Around 06:15 on Thursday, March 24, two police officers knocked on the door of the house due to a problem with the son’s home schooling.
After knocking on the door, they heard a voice that asked them who they were and, following identifying themselves, they stopped hearing noises and left.
According to investigators, at around 07:00, “all the victims jumped off the balcony one following another” within a period of five minutes.
No evidence of a struggle was found, which seems to support the theory that the actions were deliberate.
“Before or during the events, no witnesses, including the two officers present at the scene since 06:15 and the bystanders who were below the building, heard the slightest noise or scream from the floor or the balcony”said the ¨Police in a statement.
The investigations also did not reveal evidence that might explain the act, but the Police stressed, however, that “From the beginning of the pandemic, the family was very interested in conspiracy and survival theories.”
They lived practically in autarchy (self-sufficiency), isolated from society and, according to the armed body, had accumulated an impressive food reserve that occupied most of the different rooms on the floor.
Only the mother’s twin sister worked outside the home, according to the investigators. Neither the mother nor the girl were registered with the authorities and the minor did not go to school.
“All these elements suggest that the members of this family feared the interference of the authorities in their lives”concluded the Police in the document.
Both the father and the twin sisters attended prestigious schools in France, according to the French weekly Journal du Dimanche.
