GenevaLunch » police http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Disco driver crash kills 39-year-old man http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/disco-driver-crash-kills-39-year-old-man/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/disco-driver-crash-kills-39-year-old-man/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66482 GenevaLunch.com  Incident occurs 1 week after similar accident in Geneva ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Police in Zurich are seeking witnesses after a  car crashed into a Zurich disco, the Lambada, early Friday 10 February, killing one person and injuring five others including the driver. Witnesses told journalists that the driver appeared to steer his car into the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/disco-driver-crash-kills-39-year-old-man/feed/ 0 Missing Vaud mother, daughter found safe in south of France http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/missing-vaud-mother-daughter-found-safe-in-south-of-france/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/missing-vaud-mother-daughter-found-safe-in-south-of-france/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66477 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Mizué Bachelard and her seven-year-old daughter who went missing from their home in Chexbres 26 January have been found in southwestern France, thanks to the posters widely distributed along the French autoroutes by French police, according to the Vaud Police office. A woman who had taken in the pair spotted a poster [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/10/missing-vaud-mother-daughter-found-safe-in-south-of-france/feed/ 0 Maldives leader resigns, most tourists oblivious to crisis http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/07/maldives-leader-resigns-most-tourists-oblivious-to-crisis/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/07/maldives-leader-resigns-most-tourists-oblivious-to-crisis/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:10:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66361 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The tiny island nation of the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, is in crisis, with President Mahomed Nasheed resigning in the face of a police mutiny. The island is famous for its luxury hotels and resorts, but ABC news in Australia reports that the crisis is largely “invisible” to most visitors, who [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/07/maldives-leader-resigns-most-tourists-oblivious-to-crisis/feed/ 0 Missing persons, Vaud mother with daughter, Valais youth http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/missing-persons-vaud-mother-with-daughter-valais-youth/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/missing-persons-vaud-mother-with-daughter-valais-youth/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:33:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66188 GenevaLunch.com Update 10 February: Pair found, now safe. Photos removed to protect family’s privacy LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Police in two cantons have issued missing persons reports Wednesday 1 February, and they are asking the public for help finding them. Canton Vaud police say 35-year-old Mizué Bachelard and her 7-year-old daughter Hanaé Noémi disappeared Tuesday evening 31 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/missing-persons-vaud-mother-with-daughter-valais-youth/feed/ 0 Man who attacked Sion judge over “Luca” saga identified http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/man-who-attacked-sion-judge-over-luca-saga-identified/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/man-who-attacked-sion-judge-over-luca-saga-identified/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:23:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66116 GenevaLunch.com Le Nouvelliste says man has been under medical care for psychiatric problems SION, SWITZERLAND – A Sion judge was attacked and suffered multiple injuries Saturday night 28 January in the city centre. Le Nouvelliste reported Monday morning that a man who has been under medical treatment and who suffers severe psychiatric problems has been arrested [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/man-who-attacked-sion-judge-over-luca-saga-identified/feed/ 0 Geneva’s first murder of 2012 a family dispute http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/genevas-first-murder-of-2012-a-family-dispute/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/genevas-first-murder-of-2012-a-family-dispute/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:18:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66103 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 32-year-old man shot and killed the father of his ex-girlfriend in Vernier Saturday morning at 10:30, Geneva police say. The man arrived to pick up his daughter, born in 2009, for a weekend visit but a dispute broke out between the man, his ex and her parents, who were visiting. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/genevas-first-murder-of-2012-a-family-dispute/feed/ 0 Yverdon latest armed holdup site in Vaud http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/yverdon-latest-armed-holdup-site-in-vaud/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/yverdon-latest-armed-holdup-site-in-vaud/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:45:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66084 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Yet another armed robbery attempt, the sixth in seven days in canton Vaud, took place Friday night at 18:50 at the Pam grocery store on the rue des Moulins in Yverdon-les-Bains. The masked thief was frightened off without getting anything after the cashier screamed repeatedly and loudly when he pointed a black [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/28/yverdon-latest-armed-holdup-site-in-vaud/feed/ 0 String of armed robberies continues in Vaud http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/27/string-of-armed-robberies-continues-in-vaud/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/27/string-of-armed-robberies-continues-in-vaud/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:21:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66066 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A man with a gun held up two people in their 40s as they were closing their business Thursday evening 26 January at 18:30 on the rue de Margencel in Aigle. They gave him an undisclosed sum of money when they were threatened at gunpoint. He then fled and although police were [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/27/string-of-armed-robberies-continues-in-vaud/feed/ 0 Rolle supermarket robbed, elderly French thieves caught in the act in Valais http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/26/rolle-supermarket-robbed-elderly-french-thieves-caught-in-the-act-in-valais/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/26/rolle-supermarket-robbed-elderly-french-thieves-caught-in-the-act-in-valais/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:13:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66019 GenevaLunch.com Bolder thieves: rush hour main street robbery in Rolle GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Armed robbers in the Lake Geneva region are getting bolder, with a supermarket hold-up on the main street of Rolle at 19:00 Wednesday night the latest example. Two masked men broke into the Grand-rue store (police do not mention the Coop at that [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/26/rolle-supermarket-robbed-elderly-french-thieves-caught-in-the-act-in-valais/feed/ 0 Elderly man shoots at Old Town revellers, injuring one http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/elderly-man-shoots-at-old-town-revellers-injuring-one/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/elderly-man-shoots-at-old-town-revellers-injuring-one/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:51:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66006 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in Geneva have arrested a 78-year-old man in the Old Town of the city after he shot and wounded a young man at 04:30 Wednesday 25 January. The 28-year-old victim was hospitalized after being hit in the stomach by a bullet. The shooting occurred after a dispute over noise near a [...]

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