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52 Year-Old French Banker Jumps To Her Death In Paris (After Questioning Her Superiors)
There have been 13 senior financial services executives deaths around the world this year, but the most notable thing about the sad suicide of the 14th, a 52-year-old banker at France's Bred-Banque-Populaire, is she is the first female. As Le Parisien reports, Lydia (no surname given) jumped from the bank's Paris headquarter's 14th floor shortly before 10am. FranceTV added that sources said "she questioned her superiors before jumping out the window," but the bank denies it noting that she had been in therpapy for several years.
FranceTV and Le Parisien reports,
An employee of the Bred-Banque Populaire has committed suicide, Tuesday, April 22 in the morning at the headquarters of the bank. On her arrival at headquarters, quai de la Rapee, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris...
The incident occurred shortly before 10 am, 200 meters from the Ministry of Finance.
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According to our sources, she questioned his superiors before jumping out the window, that formally denies the direction of the Bank.
"There is absolutely no evidence for designating his relationships with his hierarchy as responsible or letter or message " insists the direction of the communication FranceTV info.
It also speaks of a "very painful moment for the company" .
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In an email to all employees consulted by FranceTV info, the management of the bank confirms the "death by suicide" and said "severely affected." It shows have established a psychological unit.
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"For the moment, nothing puts the company in question, says the majority union SUNI-Bred/UNSA. The employee got along very well with her new team, her superior is very nice.
"According to a close," Lydia lived alone, in a difficult environment.
The human resources department states that this inhabitant of Ivry was in therapy for several years. Each describes a "secretive" but "very well known and popular" woman, but "never spoke of it."
This is the 14th financial services exective death in recent months...
1 - William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.
2 - Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.
3 - Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.
4 - Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.
5 - Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
6 - Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.
7 - Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago. No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.
8 - Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.
9 - James Stuart Jr, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO, found dead in Scottsdale, Ariz., the morning of Feb. 19. A family spokesman did not say whatcaused the death
10 - Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, commited suicide by jumping in front of LIRR train
11 - Kenneth Bellando, 28, a trader at Levy Capital, formerly investment banking analyst at JPMorgan, jumped to his death from his 6th floor East Side apartment.
12 - Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, the former CEO of Dutch bank ABN Amro found dead at home near Amsterdam with wife and daughter.
13 - Li Jianhua, 49, the director of China's Banking Regulatory Commission died of a sudden heart attack
14 - Lydia _____, 52 - jumped to her suicide from the 14th floor of Bred-Banque Populaire in Paris
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I don't have numbers, but my guess would be it's generally significantly higher than among the "poor"...
While the general statistical issue you raise is valid, the list does not, for instance, include tellers, secretaries, IT staff, call centre operatives, etc. So it is a list of those directly involved in the more manipulative aspects of "banking". Question then is what is the size of that group.
A chicken in every pot, a banker splattering on every sidewalk
Wadsworth?! Is that you?!
she cunt fly - 2368999 to go.
I have a very serious question. How many of these bankers have dealt with Chevron accounts over the the last year or so?
Banker suicide caught on tape:
http://youtu.be/G29gdfcsgio
One kind of wonders why no suicide note explaining the motive... at least none publicly disclosed.
"You can check-out, but you can never leave..."
Sigh ... she probably overheard something she was not meant to hear.
Better to not question. Just leave quietly with your dignity and brains intact.
Can the undead really die?
Will western banks be getting the same suicide nets that Foxconn use in their factory in china?
Nice iron fences with pointy ends might work.
And a doorway to the outside of the 50th floor, labelled "Canteen ... and Bar with Hookers and Blow".
Time to reiterate because no one seems to get it.
They've all been replaced. There is a virtually inexhaustible queue of eager replacements, with more entering every day.
I'll let you repeat that from time to time. It might eventually sink in.
For a moment I was filled with joy thinking it was Blythe who suddenly had a bout with her conscience and could no longer live with herself . Then alas, I found it was a Lydia and not Blythe.
Oh well one can hope and the future is bright
14 shmorteen. Wake me up when we hit triple digits.
Maybe a Malaysian Airlines gambling junket charter flight to Malacca or something?!
Wait'n for a 2fer. One out the window takes out one on the ground!
Maybe we can have bets on who will jump next!
http://youtu.be/wFbHFTBwem0
Good banker!
WTF?!
First pair of tits to splat the pavement.
Equality has its privileges.
Good for you bitch.
She questions her "superiors" and then leaps to her death. You buy this? Much easier to consider murder. 52 year old women use pills or MVA collisions if without pills. They want tto look good in the casket for their family to say their last farewells.
Here is some advice if anyone actually cares about turning this ship called the Titanic around...stalk the bankers who are most apt to be murdered and you'll find their assassins. Are they are private detectives left in this sorry excuse of a population of adults?
I am going to petition Starbucks for permission to install guillotines in stores near bankster clusters. That, I hope, will speed up the pace. Easier to clean up as well.
still waiting to hear if jurgen herrmann's (Litchenstein) body was ever recovered.
Keep up the good fight.
Even if the next one just doesn't
want to talk to anyone they might
at least first go to Fukushima and
put some fuel rods back in their
boxes. Carefully.
At this rate, we are going to have to provide some monetary inducement...
Banker from Lichtenstein is missing from the list.
Maybe these idiots could just do a polar bear swim-like event where they all jump at once
I'm sure the HFT weenies renting NY apartments will be the next jumpers as the big Obummer machine rolls them over looking for campaign contributions.
Finally they're getting the message....
Jump You Fuckers ~ Gene Burnett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYezSrzUUs
"Open up the window,
Check out the view,
and jump you fuckers."
"Lydia oh Lydia"....c'mon, tell me anyone who watched the finale of Breaking Bad doesn't have this jingle running through their head now.
Jumpin jumpin jumpin
Keep dem banksters jumpin.
Putin.
Head em up bail em out
Ride em in fling em out.
Don't ask questions.
Just spill secrets.
Deep Throat.
Amazing how little news this story is getting, and the fact that her name is being held, ... ... hmmm
Move along ... nothing here ...
An employee of the Bred- Banque Populaire jumped from the 14th floor of the bank's headquarters on Tuesday morning, quai de la Rapee to Paris . This 52 year old woman was affected in Créteil (Val-de-Marne) since November. The incident occurred shortly before 10 am, 200 meters from the Ministry of Finance. Psychological cell was opened on Tuesday to assist employees in shock.
Some attended the scene. An investigation police began Wednesday, as well as that of the Health Committee (HSC) of the company.
"For the moment, nothing puts the company in question, says the majority union SUNI-Bred/UNSA. The employee got along very well with his new team, his superior is very nice. "According to a close," Lydia lived alone, in a difficult environment. " The human resources department states that this inhabitant of Ivry was therapeutic half for several years. Each describes a "secret" "very well known and popular" woman, but "never spoke of it." A homage will be Tuesday, April 29, at the sites of Créteil and Paris. They employ respectively 1100 and 350 employees.
I guess jumping frogs don't always land on their feet.
These fuckers cant even commit suicide efficiently.. Perhaps if you tell them they can add hidden fees to each suicide it will put the whole effort in full force.
My condolences to the family.
NO, NOT YOU YOU FUCKING SNAKES!
the ones she loves and love her.
what?!?
I bet they are all brainwashed and when their boss reads a certain number outloud they get the queue signal to go kill themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEmQhM82JFI
putain de brodel de merde!
Perhaps this is a variation of the "multiples effect" in which the Collective conscious
ness makes paradigm shifting discoveries in seemingly isolated locations all around world at the same time.
but rather this time becuase it is the banksters consciousness it is just the mere development of a conscience that is shifting the paradigm here.
and in other breaking news,
erin burnett of cnn states on
her broadcast "it is amazing how
much we don't know"... or something
just like that .... break to commercial.
.
there must be a lesson or insight in there
somewhere.
She must of responded "how high" when they asked her to jump.
That bitch was dedicated I have to give her that.
Lydia keeps my toothbrush in her apartment and she never complains.
never complains
Well, hardly ever. and then jokingly she says
jokingly she says
got a rothschild hit team on my tail
got a mossad kidron on my tail
i said boy it's been so long since I held you,
I nearly gave you up for dead. I nearly gave you up for dead. I nearly gave you up for dead.
ohh dear your dead
kind a mossad dead
She is 14x leveraged while Ben is 100x leveraged.
I accept my culpability in the death of this bankster and the rest with more to come. I am part of a distributed mass conciousness exercise intent on the rooting out and eradication of evil in general with special attention to thieves and scoundrels. My cohorts are spread accross planet earth, likely across galaxies, and possibly across dimensions and etc.....I do not know who are my co-conspirators and they have no specific kowledge of my complicity in The Purge.
My only apology is also my proof of innocence as if I was in control of the faculties that have been brought to bear on these members of the banking cartel these would have been some of the last to jump.
My sincerest condolences to the innocent bystander and children in general.
Five 'jumping' deaths.
No bullets for forensics. A splattered body would be hard to autopsy for bruises.
And then there is the nail gun suicide where the determined suicider supposedly shot himself six times. Most people would lose their concentration after one nail.
Stop with the facts!
sometimes life imitates art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7h0fB-7T8
the original is even spookier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZfLXvkKZ74
Poor Lydia. I hope she's finally free.
"Meanwhile 22 vets a day are committing suicide"
Even that number doesn't mean anything. When the country is in a state of perpetual warfare ala 1984, 22 people per day probably represents a tiny fraction of the overall number of vets. If 22 high ranking, active duty officers in non-combat roles died in a year, that would definitely get my attention.
As a few people have pointed out, it's very strange that so many of these suicides are caused by jumping because jumping is not a very common method of suicide. People with access to guns (ie Americans) generally shoot themselves. People with access to cars will either idle the car in a closed garage or pipe the car exhaust into the cab. I've actually tried the car method when I was depressed, and I can vouch that it's a good way to go. Wasn't painful or anything. Someone saved me after I had already passed out.
where is disablevet when you need him?
Unfortunately there is nothing strange in this. The French treat their employees so badly that they have the highest rate of suciside in the world. It's the most appalling country I have ever lived in and I was at the edge of a complete emotional collapse as a result of living there. I hate Paris with a vengence and hope that the French grow up some day and kick those Masonic idiots running the country, into the bloody sea or better yet, a furnace. Bring back the guillotine.
Here we like our culture of work to death. With a little exploitation on the side.
Soldiers feel guilty for killing and some Banksters feel huge remorse for their....well, every crime they partook in.
She got what she deserves.
Look at the ages of those people. Most (not all) are middle aged or older adults who made their deal with the devil.
Verily I tell everybody who reads this post this: it's either you or them. You either understand that and really take it in, or you understand nothing.
If ZH had been arsed to reproduce the full French article it'd have been clear that she was a woman on half time medical leave *for several years* because of psychological problems, a "secret" person who never talked to colleagues about her personal life, living alone in a shitty Paris suburb.
Selon un proche, «Lydie vivait seule, dans un contexte difficile». La direction des ressources humaines précise que cette habitante d’Ivry était à mi-temps thérapeutique depuis plusieurs années. Chacun décrit une femme «secrète», «très connue et appréciée» mais qui «ne parlait jamais d’elle»
Nothing more sinister than that.
La BRED is a sleepy, mediocre bank staffed by workshy fonctionnaires, in France, hardly a hangout for cynical banksters trying to take over the world.
Perhaps some of the other banker clog-popping was suspicious; this is not. Some bankers like some of the general population commit suicide. "Point final" as the French say.
Lazy sensationalism by ZH again.
"Psychological problems"...that's kinda the old stand-by used to explain the hard-to-explain...
Reminds me of a line from one of my favorite movies..."He wouldn't have died of pneumonia if I hadn't shot him."
Yeah, if you don't buy the ponzi... You have "Psychological problems"
I have to wonder if our former finance minister, Jim Flaherty, was suicided? He resigned from his post and died a month later of a heart attack.
I think he may have been against the fascists. I think he knew.
Kinda like Rommel.
Quietly,
With full honours.
ah! So it's unprecedented! ... could be a crisis kids!
Reminds me of that film starring Michale Caine.
'Bibbldy bobbldy boo.'
that serie of articles is a disgrace to ZH.
I'm literally sad it gets such a following here.
certainly she was a conspiracy member! she knew there is no gold in Fort Knox , no planes on 9/11 and even no Manhattan because it's all fake.
Oh wait she was actually employed PART-TIME in a sleepy, low-scale bank where employees are busy counting flies on the ceiling , was fighting a depression since a few years...
.. but STILL, ZEROHEDGE finds that is a GREAT SUBJECT to write about?!?!? I JUST DO NOT GET IT
it makes me genuinely sad . Will you write also about other significant events in the lifes of bankers? Divorces, births, adultery?? So many interesting stuff if going on! We , traders , do not want to miss it!
You lost me at "traders". Do you own a nail gun?
I call myself a trader and do not feel shame about it , because it is my job as for now, and I do it with honesty , and my clients appreciate my knowledge. It is true, I do not see myself doing it in 15 years - but in 5 or 10 - yes.
If you do not see any other traders here, can you tell me please for whom are intended the post about weekly changes in jobs / daily changes in oil / quarterly corporate earnings etc 80% of daily news on ZH ???
THIS IS REALLY STARTING TO GET WAAAAAAYY TOO SUSPICIOUS.....
I WILL NEVER SAY THAT I AM HAPPY OF SOMEBODY ELSE'S DEATH (so should the rest of the readers, let's not copy the kind of sociopathic behaviour that ZH condemns in the first place in this blog...).
WHAT AM SAYING IS THIS IS JUST STARTING TO FEEL NOT RIGHT... TOoooO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE... SOMETHING IS COOKING IN THE KINGDOM OF "TOO BIG TO FAIL".....
Sweet Lydia Purple
well it's sad that someone thinks they have no option but to jump out a window. something must really stink on the inside.
A quote that keeps running through my mind whenever another banker drops;
" YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH ! "
Tell someone! (ZH).Stop killing yourselves...
Lets make Fridays "Flying Banker Day"... Just for fun.
You can probably calculate the years (in thousands) that it will take for bankers to develop wings and learn to fly. It's just that the first 10,000 or so years are gonna be kind of tough.
No HIPPAA laws in france. Scape the goat.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I have a question...
I keep hearing about this "Rothschild banking family" that has supposedly been 'running' banking for hundreds of years, blah, blsah, blah, and I'm a little confused about this notion. Is this conspiracy theory realistic?
Not that I DISBELIEVE this could be possible, but it seems unlikely that one family could sustain such a huge, complex plot over many many generations of Rothschilds. I can see that individuals IN a family could be like this, but how would one keep that engine running over multiple generations? How many of you have, or know people who have, children who ALL go along with their families, for generations and generations? It's not like families all think alike, and the idea that ALL Rothschilds would even WANT to do this is a bit fantastical to me. Surely there would be a Rothschild or two who would buck the family's goals and either sabatoge, or try to expose it, no? No "black sheep" or 'difficult children' in that family? Ordinary families often have trouble even sitting at the holiday dinner table together, I can imagine that a very wealthy family would have their own issues with other members too.I mean jeez, I can't even get THIS generation of my family to cooperaste with simple household chores, these guys have managed to get numerous generations onto the same page in order to take over the world?
I could believe that a few individuals, over time, might be so inclined, but to sustain that same interest, over many generations, just seems unlikely...
They just do what the Royal families have been doing. They keep it up every generation no matter what.
Banking, in general, is a dishonorable position "manned" by criminals. Crime is stressful as it is...dishonest. Guilt takes over.
War, in general, is a dishonorable action. Soldiers kill themselves over their guilt in committing crimes against humanity.
Stacking lead, Fuck the FED.
"go take a flying leap"....IS SARCASM......
oh well...another WEAK MINDED BITCH......
GOOD RIDDANCE!
NEXT!!
New meaning to 'bankers holiday'. But, they should at least be free from any/all guilt (of the failing western banking system).
When Black Friday comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch the grey (wo)men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor...
Can't believe the trolls being so horrible about somebodies death, guess the lady had a family and people who loved her and they are very upset right now.
Shame on you.
It's in a folk song now -- Black Swan Dive -- http://youtu.be/pzDy2CubDsM
the london whale and pirates and gold and bankers walking the plank