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JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT
The Vaud canton attorney general, Eric Cottier, confirmed on Monday a corresponding report from the French Sunday newspaper “Le Journal du Dimanche” to the Keystone-SDA news agency. Therefore, 7 of the 13 suspects arrested are in police custody. During a search, investigators found weapons and € 90,000 in cash.
The investigation was carried out by French police officers from the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime and the Lyon Criminal Police. They managed to make the arrests mainly thanks to a “meticulous telephone work”, the newspaper continues.
On August 23, 2019, shortly after 3 a.m., two money carriers were attacked at the highway exit in La Sarraz. While one delivery van was able to escape the thieves, the two colleagues from the other van were forced out by the perpetrators with Kalashnikov machine guns and other weapons and were beaten.
Several shots were fired. The attackers set fire to the transport vehicle while the two occupants were on board. Then they opened the door.
Police identified three burned cars between the villages of Daillens and Penthaz as vehicles of the crime. According to the Vaudois police, about 10 thugs participated in the operation.
This attack was not the first on Vaud soil. Several of these robberies took place between 2017 and 2019. In addition to the attack in La Sarraz, there were spectacular attacks in Daillens (December 2019), Mont-sur-Lausanne (April 2018 and June 2019), Chavornay (February 2018) and Nyon (May 2017).
The process followed a similar pattern each time: the thieves threatened the couriers with firearms, blew up the delivery truck to obtain the money, and shot the vehicles before they fled to neighboring France.
