French man, 80, dies in fall from 28th floor of Sukhumvit condo

[rooster59]

French man, 80, dies in fall from 28th floor of Sukhumvit condo

By The Nation

 

 

An 80-year-old French man fell to his death from his room on the 28th floor of a condominium building on Soi Sukhumvit 61. Police identified him as as Cariou Ambroise Jean.

It was not known when he fell down. A security officer found the body at the back of the condo at 7am.

 

His Japanese wife told police that she was not home on Friday night and found out about her husband's death when she returned on Saturday morning.

 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30371960

 

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[RJRS1301]

Hope she has a water tight alibi

RIP . Hope he had a good life

[ezzra]

Me think that Thailand can easily claim itself the dubious honors as the capital of balcony diving of the world seeing the excessive number of people meeting their demise this way... 

Edited June 29, 2019 by ezzra

[RJRS1301]

Soon have to have fully enclosed balconies on all floors above ground floor 

[Lucius verus]

We rarely get any follow up to these  condo "suicides". 

No CCTV? no visitors in the room?

Always a suicide or accident.

If a bar girl dies in one of these situations police swarm on the scene and soon enough have a farang suspect  in custody.

Money.

[HampiK]

2 minutes ago, Lucius verus said:

We rarely get any follow up to these  condo "suicides". 

No CCTV? no visitors in the room?

Always a suicide or accident.

If a bar girl dies in one of these situations police swarm on the scene and soon enough have a farang suspect  in custody.

Money.

I don't think a bar girl can be alone in the condo! So yes there should mostly another person involved. The Owner or renter of the condo there is a much bigger chance of he was alone.

 

But of course it's always easy and confortable to make Thailand be the problem for everything!

[Briggsy]

15 minutes ago, Lucius verus said:

We rarely get any follow up to these  condo "suicides". 

No CCTV? no visitors in the room?

Always a suicide or accident.

If a bar girl dies in one of these situations police swarm on the scene and soon enough have a farang suspect  in custody.

Money.

It is rare to get "follow up" on any criminal cases here including balcony falls. 

 

You need to understand the power dynamic in the relationship between the police and the press. Journalists here simply parrot what the police press release states. They often follow the police and "rescue services" around and simply report on the initial scene provided the police give them the go-ahead and a statement/press release.

 

The press here generally DO NOT go out and seek those involved in the incident to report their version. It may conflict with the police version of events and the press do not want to spoil their relationship with the police.

 

The police here raise revenue through all parties they interact with, victims, criminals, innocent suspects, businesses in their jurisdiction, householders in their jurisdiction, dead people. They often close incidents through compensation payments or bribes not to investigate. They do not want their world to be transparent, in fact, just the opposite. 

[madmen]

He landed a long way out !

[Lucius verus]

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

It is rare to get "follow up" on any criminal cases here including balcony falls. 

 

You need to understand the power dynamic in the relationship between the police and the press. Journalists here simply parrot what the police press release states. They often follow the police and "rescue services" around and simply report on the initial scene provided the police give them the go-ahead and a statement/press release.

 

The press here generally DO NOT go out and seek those involved in the incident to report their version. It may conflict with the police version of events and the press do not want to spoil their relationship with the police.

 

The police here raise revenue through all parties they interact with, victims, criminals, innocent suspects, businesses in their jurisdiction, householders in their jurisdiction, dead people. They often close incidents through compensation payments or bribes not to investigate. They do not want their world to be transparent, in fact, just the opposite. 

It used to be common practice for cops to go around smashing factory windows and then informing the owners there was a gang in the area robbing businesses. The owners (happily) handed over money every month for protection. One of these cops received a commendation for stamping out crime in the area.

He was finally exposed when his wife was arrested for running an extortion racket herself.

 

[sanemax]

1 hour ago, madmen said:

He landed a long way out !

He started off a long way up 

[Maejo Man]

2 hours ago, madmen said:

He landed a long way out !

That was the first thing that I noticed, but the wife was conveniently away, which always seems to be the case.

[FritsSikkink]

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

Me think that Thailand can easily claim itself the dubious honors as the capital of balcony diving of the world seeing the excessive number of people meeting their demise this way... 

2 reasons:

Foreigners who are have a big problem (health or financially) and think this is the only way out.

Very low balconies which is a problem for people who are very drunk.

 

 

[FritsSikkink]

3 minutes ago, Maejo Man said:

That was the first thing that I noticed, but the wife was conveniently away, which always seems to be the case.

 

2 hours ago, Briggsy said:

It is rare to get "follow up" on any criminal cases here including balcony falls. 

 

You need to understand the power dynamic in the relationship between the police and the press. Journalists here simply parrot what the police press release states. They often follow the police and "rescue services" around and simply report on the initial scene provided the police give them the go-ahead and a statement/press release.

 

The press here generally DO NOT go out and seek those involved in the incident to report their version. It may conflict with the police version of events and the press do not want to spoil their relationship with the police.

 

The police here raise revenue through all parties they interact with, victims, criminals, innocent suspects, businesses in their jurisdiction, householders in their jurisdiction, dead people. They often close incidents through compensation payments or bribes not to investigate. They do not want their world to be transparent, in fact, just the opposite. 

So where is your proof that balcony falls are a criminal case? 

Yes it will be sometimes, but mostly sad people who don't see a way out of their problems or are have an accident while being dead drunk

[Pattaya46]

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

//  people meeting their demise this way... 

2 hours ago, Lucius verus said:

We rarely get any follow up to these  condo "suicides".  //

None of articles talk about "suicide". We still don't know what happened, if he felt, jumped, ...

He landed on that wall, on which is a fence with spikes ! The body has been "torn" and must not be nice to see after such a fall and arrival. 

RIP.

[Vacuum]

39 minutes ago, sanemax said:

He started off a long way up 

Unless he had wings, what would that matter?  Sloping building?

[Briggsy]

18 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

So where is your proof that balcony falls are a criminal case? 

Yes it will be sometimes, but mostly sad people who don't see a way out of their problems or are have an accident while being dead drunk

You have completely misconstrued my post. My post is about the lack of transparency of police investigations (foul play or not) and the reasons for that. 

 

Nowhere did I intimate that foul play was at play in this case. 

 

Please calm down.

[Moti24]

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

His Japanese wife told police that she was not home on Friday night.....

How convenient!

 

RiP to the poor guy.

[keemapoot]

29 minutes ago, Pattaya46 said:

None of articles talk about "suicide". We still don't know what happened, if he felt, jumped, ...

He landed on that wall, on which is a fence with spikes ! The body has been "torn" and must not be nice to see after such a fall and arrival. 

RIP.

There does appear to be blood splattered on the wall, but as many have noted, this wall seems to be far away from the building. Perhaps the balconies extend far, or he jumped and did a swan dive. Being simply pushed over the edge or falling from the edge would seem not to result in the body being that far away from the building.

 

*unless, of course two big guys threw him over...

 

Edited June 30, 2019 by keemapoot
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[BobBKK]

To get to 80 and end like that? RiP

[ExpatPH]

Here in Philippines, foreigners don't fall from high height condos (yes we have them here too) so .....

Possibly suicide, however I often think there was some assistance in the 'fall'.

RIP

Edited June 30, 2019 by ExpatPH

[MJKT2014]

4 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Soon have to have fully enclosed balconies on all floors above ground floor 

I think you'll find that most people who live above ground floor don't jump or fall, so the necessity for this seems illogical.

[Traubert]

1 hour ago, Pattaya46 said:

None of articles talk about "suicide". We still don't know what happened, if he felt, jumped, ...

He landed on that wall, on which is a fence with spikes ! The body has been "torn" and must not be nice to see after such a fall and arrival. 

RIP.

Yeah, I wondered about the step ladder and what two of the attendees were looking up at. I'm not a ghoul like some, but it looks very nasty.

[cobra]

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

2 reasons:

Foreigners who are have a big problem (health or financially) and think this is the only way out.

Very low balconies which is a problem for people who are very drunk.

 

 

You got that right,

Some balconies are so short I don't even venture out on the deck lest a freak gust of wind sends me flying ????

[generealty]

If the Thai construction standards demanded regular height balcony rails/walls then half of these falls/dives/pushes would not happen. It is so easy but why cant they see it. How can a person fall over a 1.2 meter high rail unless climb over or pushed.

[hotchilli]

Not a nice way to end your days, whatever the cause it's sad to see the demise of an elderly gent!

RIP Monsieur.

[RichardColeman]

Let's hope that if it was suicide , he did not change his mind half-way down.

[RJRS1301]

2 hours ago, MJKT2014 said:

I think you'll find that most people who live above ground floor don't jump or fall, so the necessity for this seems illogical.

Risk Management , and there appears that there are a lot of balcony falls in Thailand even compared to NYC and other densely populated high rise cities

[dabhand]

2 hours ago, ExpatPH said:

Here in Philippines, foreigners don't fall from high height condos (yes we have them here too) so .....

Possibly suicide, however I often think there was some assistance in the 'fall'.

RIP

Yes, never happens in the Philippines..............

 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1100756/foreigner-found-dead-at-condo-garden-in-taguig-city

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/03/23/1903735/2-koreans-american-fall-their-deaths

[stropper]

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

Me think that Thailand can easily claim itself the dubious honors as the capital of balcony diving of the world seeing the excessive number of people meeting their demise this way... 

in thailand they report suicides, in aus especially the gold coast with its casino after they were getting up to 7 flyers a week they no longer report  it in the news on how the landing went, suicides are no longer reported, beleive me i have had 7 friends bale out there ! just so they can make more people penniless 

 

[RJRS1301]

8 minutes ago, stropper said:

in thailand they report suicides, in aus especially the gold coast with its casino after they were getting up to 7 flyers a week they no longer report  it in the news on how the landing went, suicides are no longer reported, beleive me i have had 7 friends bale out there ! just so they can make more people penniless 

 

The evidenced research for that claim is located where? (up to 7 flyers per week?)

Suicides are reported differently in Australia they rarely mention the mode used