Yeah they were ferocious criminals , like my grandparents. Also I think that the relatives of Balthazar were also murderess thieves and rapists.
Maybe a kind of, in case of my grandad. He was expelled from the party and lost his position of city chief after having accidentally killed a drunk chechen as the result of car accident. Unfortunately, he took this too personally and had a heart attack as the result. After this he carried the nitroglycerin tablets during the remaining 30 years of life. 