Deadly weekend on region’s roads: high speed chase death, two accidents
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A high-speed chase in the early hours of Sunday led to the shooting death of one of the thieves of three luxury cars, a 20-year-old French man, resident in France. The cars were stolen from a garage in canton Bern, and police there quickly alerted their colleagues in cantons Fribourg and Vaud when the cars were spotted traveling at high speed towards Lausanne. The first two cars pulled over and the thieves abandoned them when they realized they were being chased. The third car stopped near a roadblock in the Sévaz tunnel near Broye.
A Vaud police officer, seeing the car coming at high speed, shot at it, killing the passenger.
Divonne-les-bains, France (GenevaLunch) – A Saturday 11 December carjacking in Divonne, France over the border from Founex, in canton Vaud, Switzerland, is the third in the region since October, according to Dauphine Liberé and 20 Minutes (Fre). The driver left the keys in the ignition while he ran an errand, with his companion sitting in the passenger seat. A man threatened the woman with a gun, then stole the car, an Audi with Swiss plates.
