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Gunman was Kosovar refugee who became Swiss GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A man was arrested Friday morning in connection with the ownership of the gun used Wednesday morning during the shooting in Menznau, canton Lucerne. Police let him go the next day; he was the brother of the gunman and the gun was licensed to him. [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A Sion area junior football trainer who is also be a police officer remains under arrest since he was taken in one month ago after one young boy told his mother the man had been touching him sexually. Others then came forward and, according to papers obtained by RTS public broadcasting, police [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 41-year-old Italian man who died in a patrol car while being taken in for questioning, 11 January in Montreux, most likely died from reflex cardiac arrest or asphyixiation, preliminary autopsy results show. The man swallowed a plastic bag with cocaine that he managed to grab, while in the car, from police [...]
Brother-in-law shot in family feud LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 27-year-old Kosovar man who lives west of Lausanne was arrested in canton Neuchatel shortly after midnight Thursday 1 November for the murder Monday of a 29-year-old man in Chavannes-près-Renens, west of Lausanne. Vaud police had a suspect soon after the crime and carried out a number [...]
Former Guatamalan police chief to remain in Champ-Dollon prison GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Erwin Sperisen, Guatamala’s former police chief who was jailed in Geneva 31 August will remain at Champ-Dollon prison for now, Geneva’s cantonal attorney-general said Tuesday 16 October. The office was informed by the criminal court of appeal that it had considered a challenge [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Valais Police Chief Christian Varone has been charged in Antalya, Turkey with attempting to steal cultural relics, but he was released and allowed to return to Switzerland. The charges are related to a stone found in his family’s bags at the airport last Friday 27 June, as the police officer and his [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Christian Varone, head of canton Valais police, is under arrest in Turkey, reportedly for trying to get on a flight home with a stone picked up by his young son as a souvenir. Varone has been in detention in Antalaya since Friday 27 July when the family was stopped at the airport, [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The French and Italian citizen who is accused of stealing data from his one-time employer, HSBC bank in Geneva, and then selling it to the French government, has been arrested in Spain. Switzerland has had an international arrest warrant out for him, but as long as he stayed in France he could [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An 18-year old French citizen was arrested in Geneva after driving into a group of pedestrians with a stolen motorcycle early Sunday 15 July following the annual Lake Parade event. The suspect, who was under the influence of drugs and had a blood alcohol level of 0.67 per mil had stolen a [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Benoit XVI’s butler was arrested Wednesday 23 May for leaking highly confidential documents to an Italian journalist. The arrest follows weeks of turmoil with documents leaked that included confidential messages and documents about financial transparency, sexual scandals and negotiations with private religious organizations. The butler, or [...]
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