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Thieves caught robbing safe at Nyon train station

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:23:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com NYON, SWITZERLAND – Police nabbed three thieves from Lyons, France, ages 17, 27 and 28, who were caught in the act of trying to break into a safe at the Nyon train station at 03:00 Thursday morning 27 October, Vaud police announced Monday. A shot was fired accidentally in the fight between authorities and the [...]

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Animal news roundup: Ohio zoo, Zurich customs, jail over euthanasia

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:48:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich Zoo temporarily welcomes 1,000 unplanned insect guests ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Zurich had its own headline animal news Wednesday 19 October, but it was not alone. The city’s airport was the scene of a discovery by Swiss customs officials of 261 illegally imported tarantulas, a haul that led officials to the apartment of the owner, [...]

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TPG manager murder suspect reportedly arrested

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:39:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Tribune de Geneve reports that a man suspected of the murder of a 51-year-old TPG (Geneva public transport) company manager was arrested abroad and is being investigated by Geneva police. According to the city newspaper the man, who is an employee of the company, has had personal problems in recent months [...]

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TPG transport manager shot at work in Geneva

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:29:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Murderer remains at large after Monday morning shooting GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 51-year-old Frenchman who was a maintenance department manager for the TPG public transport company was shot and killed at work Monday moring 22 August, at 10:00. The murderer arrived on a motorcycle, wearing a helmet and kept the helmet on while he walked [...]

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Vaud police were justified in autoroute shooting, court says

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:14:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A policeman who shot and killed a passenger in a car on the A1 autoroute in 2010 was justified in using his gun, and correct procedures were filed, a Swiss court has ruled. The case was closed 15 June. The 18-year-old from France who died from a gunshot wound was in a [...]

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Thai police shoot into red-shirts crowd

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:13:59 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Police in Bangkok, Thailand shot rubber bullets into a convoy of red-shirt protestors Wednesday. A crowd fought back with stones , with the melee reportedly killing one soldier, who was shot in the head, although it is unclear exactly what happened. A number of people were injured, according to the Bangkok Post, which says the [...]

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Exciting life of Finn the bear: shot, now dad (update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:47:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 26 February, link added Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lausanne newspaper 24 Heures called it one of Switzerland’s best-guarded secrets, proving that it isn’t only bank accounts the Swiss are quiet about: Finn, one of Bern’s two much-loved zoo bears who was shot by a policeman in November when he attacked an intruder, became a [...]

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Police shoot man at Danish cartoonist’s home

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:46:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Police in Aarhus, Denmark, have shot and wounded a Somali man carrying a knife who broke and entered the home of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard after the owner hit an alarm bell to call the police. The man, say police, is a member of the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia. Westergaard became a target of Islamist [...]

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Former KGB spy in Israel shot dead in central Moscow

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:54:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Shabtai Kalmanovich, who was accused of spying for the KGB in Israel in 1988 after 17 years in the country to which he had emigrated, was killed after being shot in central Moscow Monday 2 November. The Lithuanian-born Kalmanovich was shot more than 20 times by a passing car, according to Russian media, and his [...]

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Boxer Vernon Forrest killed by robbers

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:47:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com WBC former welterweight champion Vernon Forrest, 39, known for being an articulate and civic-minded citizen in a sport not always known for these, was shot dead at a gas station in Atlanta, Georgia. He had chased thieves who tried to rob him as he filled the tank of his Jaguar. Atlanta AJC

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