Four family members died & one seriously injured in an apparent "group jump" from a seventh-floor apartment balcony.
Police identified the French family as a 40-year-old man, his wife, 41, her twin sister and the couple's daughter, 8, who all died. The couple's son, 15, was seriously injured & rushed to the hospital. The police investigation is ongoing.
Two police officers visited the family's apartment in the Swiss resort town of Montreux to execute a search warrant for the father in connection with homeschooling the teenage son. Blick. Police carry out annual checks to see if homeschooling guidelines are being followed. The parents allegedly failed to respond to letters, police said, so officers visited the family.
Officers knocked on the door & heard a voice asking them who was there. After announcing themselves, they didn't hear anything else coming from the apartment.
At the time, "an intrusion into the apartment by the police was not justified," said a media spokesman for the cantonal police in Vaud.
"The officers were unable to enter the apartment & it appears that at that moment, the decision was made by this family to throw themselves off the balcony," Jean Christophe Sauterel, spokesman for the Vaud cantonal police, said.
The bodies were found at the foot of the building, all without shoes, by a passerby. Neighbors told police they heard a loud thud simultaneously, leading police to describe the incident as a "group jump."
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Source: Newsweek
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