Suicide of disgruntled employee? Bus fire at Kerzers / Chiètres, Switzerland, at least six dead
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
Wed, 11 Mar 2026
Conflict of Interest disclaimer: the author has resided in Switzerland, he has taken the Swiss citizenship oath and, from time to time, been party to legal and contractual relationships involving parties referenced in the JuristGate reports. The nature of these relationships is often declared within the research reports although we can't rule out the possibility some relationships or influences have not been explicitly itemized within every report.
News reports have appeared about a bus catching fire in Kerzers, Switzerland, which is also known as Chiètres in French. Reports suggest one person doused himself in fire. Police confirm it was deliberate and they say it is not a terrorist. The possibility that remains for us to contemplate is that it was somebody who has been humiliated by their employer or the jurists in a tribunal.
This web site has gone to great lengths to reveal the extent to which jurists take money from people and then fail to provide any solution to the needs of their clients. In many cases, the jurists make disputes even worse in the hope that parties on both sides of the dispute, or their insurers, will end up paying even more legal fees.
When employers make somebody redundant in Switzerland, they normally have to give the workers three to six months notice or a lump sum payment, sometimes both. To avoid making these payments, some employers and some of the agencies responsible for contract employees will try to blame one of the workers. Many of these disputes are settled by a tribunal. Both the employer and employee want to save face and so the judgments are kept totally secret.
There are parallel cases in Germany. Galia Mancheva's abuse report describes her experience of taking the FSFE misfits to an employment tribunal. The tribunal forced her to listen to lies from the men and then they humiliated her by telling her she can't have justice because she had been in the job for less than twelve months.
Due to the JuristGate scandal, when the illegal legal fees insurance scheme vanished overnight, up to 20,000 clients suddenly found themselves without a lawyer. Some of those people were in the middle of legal disputes with employers or employees. Some of those disputes involve sensitive matters, such as accusations of sexual impropriety and employee illness. FINMA has not made any comment on how these case files were protected or compromised. Matthieu Parreaux, the founder of the rogue firm, suggested that all the case files have fallen into the hands of other lawyers.
When we began examining the Adrian von Bidder death in Basel, where his wife subsequently became the mayor, we looked at a petition to the Basel Kanton about the way they are hiding the number of suicides and the reasons for them. We were shocked to find the name A. von Bidder on the petition shortly before Adrian von Bidder-Senn died at age 32. No official reasons have been given. The only fact we know is that he died eight months after the Debian Day volunteer suicide and people discussed it like a copy-cat suicide. Nonetheless, if Debianism was not the only influence in his death, we need to start asking if he had simultaneously been the victim of rogue employment practices or incompetence by jurists.
As noted in the Basel Kanton suicide petition, many of these cases involve total secrecy and the employment tribunals also operate in secrecy. From time to time, news reports appear about cases where multiple people are attacked or killed, for example, a chainsaw attack at the office of CSS insurance in Kanton Schaffhausen. I went to some detail to explain the incompetence, corruption and racism we encountered when somebody fell on Carla at a Zurich yoga studio and the people at the accident insurance spent two years giving us excuses.
Police confirm the Postbus fire occurred deliberately. It happened at peak hour when the bus had the maximum number of passengers. The victim chose to die in a Postbus. These buses are iconic of Swiss rural life and the tourism industry. Did the victim of this suicide intend to send some kind of signal, like the distinctive three-tone horn of the bus itself?
Will the victims of this tragedy spend two years waiting for an answer or will they never get answers at all?
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Conflict of Interest disclaimer: the author has resided in Switzerland, he has taken the Swiss citizenship oath and, from time to time, been party to legal and contractual relationships involving parties referenced in the JuristGate reports. The nature of these relationships is often declared within the research reports although we can't rule out the possibility some relationships or influences have not been explicitly itemized within every report.