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A female banker allegedly jumped to her death in France this week, bringing the number of recent deaths in the banking industry, most of them suicides, to a record 14.
The woman, whose first name is Lydia-- no last name has been released-- was an employee of the Bred-Banque Populaire. According to the Le Parisien, the 52-year-old woman jumped from the 14th floor of the banks headquarters in Paris Tuesday around 10 a.m.
Another banker commits suicide, bringing numbers of recent mysterious deaths to 14
Lydia reportedly jumped to her death after an argument with upper management. A police investigation is underway and employees are being offered medical help for the shock. No other information is available at this time.http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/16960703-another-banker-commits-suicide-bringing-numbers-of-recent-mysterious-deaths-to-14
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/16960703-another-banker-commits-suicide-bringing-numbers-of-recent-mysterious-deaths-to-14
Conspiracy Theories Surround Female Paris Banker's Death Leap
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/conspiracy-theories-surround-female-paris-bankers-death-leap-1446220
Female banker jumps to her death bringing industry deaths to 14
http://www.examiner.com/article/female-banker-jumps-to-her-death-bringing-industry-deaths-to-14?cid=sm-facebook-042514-7.00pm-FemaleBankerSuicide
Liechtenstein Banker Shot Dead in Reported Investment Feud
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-07/liechtenstein-police-says-48-year-old-man-killed-in-bank-garage.html
Japanese Banker Commits Suicide after 'Losing £900,000 in Bad Investments'
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/japanese-banker-commits-suicide-after-losing-900000-bad-investments-1447017
madokie
(51,076 posts)AG was saying that no bank is too big to jail, nor anyone in said banks, you can bet that has something to do with these suicides. He's been saying this for a while now in fact at about the same time that the deaths began if I remember correctly.
malaise
(269,157 posts)'jumping'.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)TBF
(32,090 posts)too - awful lot of "jumping" going on. Almost seems like an orchestrated activity ... one wonders what they all were working on.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)And they couldn't live with themselves because of their culpability.
Something strikes me as these suicides are like the canary in the coal mine.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)somehow I doubt they had remorse over what they did but had problems with being in jail or their masters had problems with what they know.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)but it sure would make it hard to prove murder by pushing.
I don't believe these people are jumping.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)As your IB link says, people on the internet are trying to find connections between people who have no connection other than industry. It is also the industry with the fifth highest suicide rate in the world.
It is easy to notice a trend when you already have one in mind. Give me a day, and I could link a number of mysterious teacher suicides together and come up with some posit that they're being cleared out due to fighting expanded testing.
I worked in banking before (not on the investment side). The environment is not exactly conducive to mental well-being.
TBF
(32,090 posts)everyone's doing it.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)In 2011 apparently the most suicidal profession was Marine Engineers - what did they know?
Bryant
nikto
(3,284 posts)With Eric Holder as the main enforcer of Law.
Unless, ofcourse, those bankers grow medical marijuana.
We don't arrest bankers in America, just people like these folks:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/02/family-of-medical-marijua_n_5228182.html
Javaman
(62,534 posts)I felt sorry for the microbiologists...
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)That's fine.
I'd rather not listen to them complain about it.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)This whole "epidemic of banker deaths" seems like a media-driven fantasy more than anything else.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)I'd also be more inclined to have an iota of sympathy towards their deaths as well.