A 24-year-old French national died on Sunday, October 26, after jumping from the fifth floor of a hotel in Pattaya.
Every year, many tourists fall from their balconies in Thailand, mainly in Pattaya , without the causes always being clearly established, but in this recent tragedy, the man threw himself into the void.
See: Why do so many foreigners fall from their balconies in Thailand?
The police are trying to determine the cause of the incident.
Police officers are examining the scene where a French tourist fell from the fifth floor of a Pattaya hotel. 2025.
Police are currently investigating to determine if this tragic accident was due to personal stress.
Lieutenant Bavornsak Boonman, assistant inspector of the Pattaya police station, was informed of the incident at 5 a.m. in a hotel located in Moo 10, Bang Lamung district, Chonburi province.
He coordinated the rescue efforts with volunteers from the Sawang Boriboon Dhamma Sathan Pattaya Rescue Foundation and medical teams from Pattaya Hospital.
Rescuers found Mr. Max lying in the hotel parking lot, seriously injured.
Medical staff administered first aid on site before urgently transporting him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses report erratic behavior
Police officers and paramedics assist the young Frenchman in Pattaya. Photo: แจ็ค โพธิ์แดง
A hotel security guard told police he saw the man climb onto the balcony railing of his fifth-floor room.
Staff members attempted to intervene, and the man initially appeared to comply with their requests and began to get off the stairs.
However, he climbed back onto the railing a few moments later and jumped.
Police found no signs of a struggle or disturbance in the hotel room, but cannabis was discovered at the scene.
Hotel staff reported that prior to the incident, the deceased had been heard speaking loudly on the phone, in what appeared to be an argument, before staff came to check on him.
The police are treating this case as a suspected suicide, possibly triggered by personal problems, but the investigation is continuing to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the death.
See also:
Worrying wave of fatal balcony falls in Pattaya, Thailand
French tourist jumps from balcony in Thailand
Tourist falls from balcony in Thailand, fights for life, family struggles to pay hospital bills
Source: Khaosod English
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4 comments
This is very likely a case of suicide, as the man was alone in his hotel room when he jumped…
It would nevertheless be necessary for the police to investigate the origin of the heated phone call he exchanged with an apparently unidentified person and to find that person so that they can be heard and explain their relationship with the victim.
The cause-and-effect relationship of his action is certainly directly linked to this call.
Without the causes always being clearly established.
Naiveté?
I would say rather a lack of police and judicial training in investigative procedures and chronic police incompetence.
One only has to observe the pollution during the collection of evidence and the initial findings at a crime scene, and the way in which physical evidence is gathered and collected, to realize this incompetence and lack of professionalism in a police force whose members "buy" their commitment and their uniform…
As for their professional training, I'd love to be a fly on the wall to sit among a class at their Police Academy and School…
If it's anything like getting a driver's license, nothing should surprise us anymore!
Another one probably fleeced by a prostitute, or swindled and lost everything.