Conspiracy theorists led family to death in Switzerland

[onthedarkside]

 

After a year of investigation, the Swiss authorities now say the mother of the family, and her sister, were deeply involved in survivalist and conspiracy theories.

 

After the deaths, police found their apartment full of food, medicines, and hygiene materials, carefully stored and organised, the family rarely went out, and the children were home-schooled.

 

The two women had a deep-seated suspicion of government and local authorities, investigators say, and had brought up the children to believe that the world was a hostile place.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65031382

 

[Credo]

This is always so sad when it involves children.  I've lived around preppers, and they gradually remove into a self-feeding loop of delusion.  They cut themselves off from others and have no reasonable input from anywhere except their own delusions.

 

The Pandemic exacerbated all this.  If you are already bordering on delusion and paranoia.  An actual disease can push you over the edge.   

The one thing I have never understood is how these people make a living.  This type of lifestyle, if you can call it that, isn't cheap.   

 

[Purdey]

What horrible parents. The kids didn't deserve this. 

[KhunBENQ]

You need a driving license to ride a scooter but no license to raise and mistreat children.

[johnnybangkok]

And people say conspiracy theorists are harmless. Far from it I would say. Poor kids. Just awful.