Any modern discussion of Swiss Guard scandals is haunted by the 1998 murder-suicide of Commander Alois Estermann, his wife, and a young guardsman, Cédric Tornay. Though the official Vatican report blamed a fit of madness, conspiracy theorists have long alleged a lover's quarrel or a cover-up involving high-level "Gelsomino" (jasmine) circles.
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