Lausanne/Sion, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Valais police are investigating an incident in which a man pulled a knife on a youth Friday night 11 September at the Sion train station. The man was buying a ticket at a machine when a group of seven youths aged between 17 and 20 approached him, acting threateningly, he told police. He pulled out a pocket knife, and in the skirmish that followed, one of the youths was hurt, and taken to hospital, according to the Valais police.
Late Saturday night 12 September, a young American student in Lausanne was attacked by two young men and four young women as he was out near Parc Montbenon. Parc Montbenon was the scene 1 September of a knifing on a young Algerian man who later died of his injuries.
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Background: “Non-Swiss juveniles kill youth, send police to hospital in separate crimes” 07 September 2009, GenevaLunch
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News story, GenevaLunch, 15 September 2009.
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Tags: attacks, gangs, hospitalization, knife wounds, Lausanne, parc Montbenon, Sion, Switzerland, threats, university, Valais
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February 28th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
[...] is not the first time that Montbenon Park has been the scene of random acts of violence. In 2009, an American student was attacked by six youth – including four women. A few months earlier, a 20-year-old was knifed in the [...]