EXCLUSIVE Sarco suicide pod's SECOND victim: The doctor who witnessed woman's death, unanswered 'strangulation' questions, and the boss who now says: 'He was paranoid and delusional'
When he was five years old, Dr Florian Willet used to walk around the neighbourhood where he lived in Heidelberg, Germany, looking up.
It's a picturesque city, fringed by the lush Black Forest, where the warm weather breeds fig and almond trees and rainbow-coloured parakeets swoop overhead.
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EXCLUSIVE Sarco suicide pod's SECOND victim: The doctor who witnessed woman's death, unanswered 'strangulation' questions, and the boss who now says: 'He was paranoid and delusional'
When he was five years old, Dr Florian Willet used to walk around the neighbourhood where he lived in Heidelberg, Germany, looking up. It's a picturesque city, fringed by the lush Black Forest, where the warm weather breeds fig and almond trees and rainbow-coloured parakeets swoop overhead.
