Teenage boy survives tragedy as police work on theory of ‘collective suicide’
Four members of a French family died after jumping from a seventh-floor apartment in the Swiss town of Montreux, police said.
The Vaud regional police said on Tuesday there was no sign of a struggle and that their findings “make it possible to rule out the intervention of a third party”.A man aged 40, his 41-year-old wife, her twin sister, the couple’s eight-year-old daughter and their son all lived “withdrawn from society”, according to police.
The police said that “since the start of the pandemic, the family was very interested in conspiracy and survivalist theories”. The family lived in virtual self-sufficiency having amassed a stockpile of food, taking up much of their living space but enabling them to see out a major crisis. “All these elements suggest … fear of the authorities interfering in their lives,” the police statement said.
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