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A teenage boy survived the tragedy as police say they are investigating the theory of “collective suicide”.
Four members of a French family were thrown to their deaths from their seventh-floor apartment last Thursday, rocking the Swiss town of Montreux.
The family’s 15-year-old son survived the tragedy in the city near Lake Geneva, but is in a coma in hospital.
Regional police said there were no signs of a fight in the house and that there was no interference from third parties.
Hence they are working on the tragic theory of collective suicide.
The 40-year-old man, his 41-year-old wife, the latter’s twin sister, the couple’s eight-year-old daughter and their son, lived “separated from society”, Swiss police said.
Authorities had knocked on the door of the family home on the morning of the tragedy to talk to the father about the “private home education” he was giving his son.
But when no one responded, the officers left.
Multiple suicides occurred minutes later.
Police added that since the launch of the Covid-19 pandemic, the family has been interested in “survival theory and conspiracy”.
They lived self-supportingly and had filled the apartment with food that occupied most of the space, not wanting to go out or go shopping.
Only the woman’s twin sister worked outside the home and none of the mother or eight-year-old daughter were registered with municipal authorities.
“All the elements suggest… the fear that the authorities would interfere in their lives,” the police statement argued.
The French daily ‘Journal du Dimanche’ wrote that the father, Eric David, had grown up in a wealthy area of Marseille and was educated at the prestigious ‘Ecole Polytechnique’.
Narjisse Feraoun’s twin sisters, Nasrine, were raised in a family of five and also educated at the prestigious French lyceum ‘Lycée Henri-IV’ in Paris.
Their mother was a dentist and her sister an ophthalmologist.
The newspaper said the twins were great-grandchildren of Algerian writer Mouloud Feraoun, a close friend of French philosopher Albert Camus.
Feraoun was assassinated in Algeria in 1962 by pro-colonial French radicals.// The Guardian //
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