A third person has jumped from a window in a Paris housing estate where two other people, including a nine-year-old girl, have leapt to their death in the last ten days.

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Spate of window jumpings in Paris suburb

A third person has jumped from a window in a Paris housing estate where two other people, including a nine-year-old girl, have leapt to their death in the last ten days.

Published: 21 March 2012 08:58 CET
Spate of window jumpings in Paris suburb
Frédéric Bisson

The latest incident involved a 19-year-old woman who threw herself from the 12th floor of an apartment block in the Pablo-Picasso area of Nanterre, west of Paris.

Le Parisien newspaper reported that the woman lived with her mother and sister in the 18 storey block.

At around 8pm she jumped from the window and fell onto a barrier protecting the entrance to an underground car park.

“I saw her fall,” a neighbour told the newspaper. “I was at the window and saw her fall onto the barrier.”

On Sunday March 11th a nine-year-old girl died after throwing herself from the window of an apartment in a nearby block.

The girl was being looked after by a babysitter, along with her two sisters aged six and seven, and had reportedly been told off.

She went to a bedroom and jumped from a 15th floor window.

On Tuesday night last week a 32-year-old woman also died after jumping from a building in the same area.

She had reportedly been having dinner with friends and discussing her state of mind.

Suddenly, she got up from the table and threw herself from the window.

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Switzerland backs assisted suicide in prisons

Sick prisoners will be allowed to request assisted suicide in Switzerland although the modalities still have to be worked out, prison system officials said on Thursday.

Published: 7 February 2020 09:11 CET
Switzerland backs assisted suicide in prisons
Illustration photo: AFP

The issue has come to the fore following a request made in 2018 by a convict behind bars for life, which exposed a legal vacuum in a country that has long been at the forefront of the global right-to-die debate.

Switzerland's cantons, which implement prison sentences, have agreed “on the principle that assisted suicide should be possible inside prisons,” the Conference of Cantonal Departments of Justice and Police said.

Conference director Roger Schneeberger told AFP that there were still differences between cantons on how assisted suicides could be carried out in prisons and a group of experts would issue recommendations by November.

Swiss law generally allows assisted suicide if the person commits the lethal act themselves — meaning doctors cannot administer deadly injections, for example — and the person consistently and independently articulates a wish to die.

Organisations that support assisted suicide also apply their own procedures, which are more robust than the legal requirements and sometimes require the person who is requesting it to have a serious illness.

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