What really happened in Sarco suicide pod?
by Paul Bracchi, Daily Mail:
Chilling claims after woman’s post-mortem, the mysterious alarm and questions over exactly how long it took her to die as chief is arrested.
From the outside the prison in Schaffhausen, near the Swiss border with Germany, looks more like an Alpine hotel. But no one should be under any illusion: the regime here is far from soft.
The 40 or so inmates, being held mainly on remand, spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement in a cell with just a bed, basin and toilet. One of them is the unlikely figure of Florian Willet, who has just begun his sixth week in custody.
His backstory, which was controversial even before he was incarcerated, is rapidly developing, metaphorically speaking, into something resembling a Netflix series, given the developments of the past week.
The 47-year-old is co-president of The Last Resort, the operators of the futuristic ‘suicide capsule’ known as the Sarco (short for sarcophagus).
It was on September 23, in woods about five miles from the prison, that a woman – a 64-year-old mother of two from the American midwest – became the first person to end her life in the sealed chamber by pressing a button inside which flooded the pod with nitrogen, thus starving her of oxygen. Her death, Willet declared to the world, was ‘peaceful, fast and dignified’ and everything went ‘according to plan’.
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