Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 66-year-old man and and his 47-year-old female companion, both Swiss, were killed during a robbery at their hotel in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, an hour from the capital, Santa Domingo. The woman was raped before she was murdered. The Swiss Foreign Affairs Department Monday 1 November confirmed earlier media reports of the deaths based on local media stories in the capital. The pair had been staying in the area for two months and were reportedly planning to spend the winter there.
Police have reportedly arrested a man, a fugitive.
TSR reports that they were from Lausanne, and interviews people at the Café de l’Europe, where they were regulars.
Close of Olympic Games for doping
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne has stripped Rashid Ramzi from Bahrein of his gold medal. He won the men’s 1,500 metre race in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Italian Davide Rebellin, who placed second in the men’s road cycle event, will have to return his silver medal, the IOC announced. The world governing body for the Olympic Games sanctioned three other athletes who participated in the Beijing Olympics for using the banned hormone CERA, 18 November.
The IOC’s zero-tolerance policy in the use of endurance or performance-enhancing drugs means that it will store blood and urine samples taken during the Games for eight years so that the laboratories can do retroactive testing.
