The tragedy occurred Thursday when the child fell into the water and the mother jumped in after him, Swedish Maritime Administration spokesperson Jonas Franzen said. He said the child fell from a height of about 20 meters.
What do you even do in a situation like this? If I saw my child fall from a ferry there is no way I wouldn’t jump in after even if I knew it was certain death. I can’t imagine living on just doing nothing!
You wouldn’t stop to think about it. But how is it even possible for a 7 year old to fall overboard in the first place? Ferries are full of kids running around, something must have been very wrong for this to happen at all?
You underestimate how dumb kids are lol
I might. But ferry companies are not generally allowed to.
This has been ruled out as an accident by Danish authorities. This is a murder investigation now
Source?
This is in Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/blekinge/danska-haverikommissionen-konstaterar-ingen-olycka-vid-fallet-fran-polenfarjan
Google translate:
It was not an accident but a deliberate act, the Danish accident commission stated, which is now closing its investigation into the deaths from the Polen ferry.
- We have installed surveillance footage, says investigator Morten Frederiksen to SVT.
A seven-year-old boy and his mother died after they both ended up in the water while on the way by ferry to Karlskrona from Gdynia.
At first an accident was suspected - but it is now dismissed by the Danish accident commission.
After its investigation, the Danish investigation states that it is instead a matter of deliberate handling, reports P4 Blekinge.
- It is correct, because we have now put surveillance footage that it was not an accident but a deliberate handling. Therefore, the police are taking over the case for the time being, says Morten Frederiksen, investigator at the Danish accident commission to SVT Blekinge.
Investigated as murder
It was on Thursday last week that the incident occurred. The deceased are Polish citizens and the ferry was on its way to Karlskrona from Poland.
Prosecutor Marie Lindström in Karlskrona has already started a preliminary investigation into murder. At the same time, the prosecutor’s office in Gdansk has opened an investigation into murder and suicide, according to the Polish television station Tvn24.The ferry Stena Spirit, which sails under the Danish flag, is registered in Denmark and is therefore being investigated by the Danish accident commission.
- We have installed surveillance footage, says investigator Morten Frederiksen to SVT.
Odd wording to say boy died, however mother was killed when they met the same fate.
almost like… not the way a human would word it. do they just have bots scan the article and generate the headlines? or they feed it a news alert like from Reuters, for the bot to paraphrase and generate the whole thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Did someone throw the boy from the ferry?
The boy was wheelchair bound and the whole thing is being investigated as a murder & suicide, so yes.
Hello, just wanted to give a friendly suggestion to use terms like “wheelchair user” or “person who uses a wheelchair” instead of “wheelchair bound” or “confined to a wheelchair”. There are many articles explaining why in more detail for those wanting to know.
User of the wheeled chair
Individual who partakes in the usage of a wheel-equiped chair
so yes.
You can’t really say that when you don’t fucking know. It’s being investigated to find out if the answer is yes.
It’s an investigation because they don’t know every single thing yet, like if the boy even was alive or not when he got thrown overboard as there are eye witness reports saying he was slumped and unmoving in his wheelchair hours earlier.
What started the murder & suicide investigation that does not have any other suspects was surveillance video evidence that disproved the initial assumption that the mother jumped after him to save him. Not a lot of possibilities for who get the “murdered” and who the “murderer & suicide” labels there.
