https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed UPDATED: An Italian man died after being unable to escape a fire on Wednesday that ripped through an apartment building in Villars-sur Ollon, a mountain ski resort town in the canton of Vaud. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160204/man-dies-after Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:41:08 +0100 man-dies-after Police in the canton of Vaud are investigating the deaths of a 26-year-old woman and her 25-year-old boyfriend in a Montreux apartment, where they lived, following an apparent domestic dispute. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160107/montreux-murder-suicide-probed-after-deaths Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:16:38 +0100 montreux-murder-suicide-probed-after-deaths Police in the canton of Vaud have arrested a dozen people linked to an African smuggling ring suspected of bringing dozens of kilograms of cocaine into Switzerland. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151203/vaud-police-crack-nigerian-coke-smuggling-ring Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:50:12 +0100 vaud-police-crack-nigerian-coke-smuggling-ring A 50-year-old man who let his 81-year-old mother die in the home they shared, without seeking medical help after she suffered multiple injuries, was sentenced by a court in the canton of Vaud to six years in jail. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151202/son-convicted-of-elderly-mums-murder-by-omission Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:19:17 +0100 son-convicted-of-elderly-mums-murder-by-omission A 93-year-old man from the canton of Vaud died in a fire in his home that investigators believe could have been caused by an electric blanket, police said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151130/seniors-fire-death-linked-to-electric-blanket Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:45:13 +0100 seniors-fire-death-linked-to-electric-blanket A court on Friday acquitted a policewoman of wrongdoing for having driven a patrol car last year over 22-year-old Stéphane Chenaux who was lying on the A1 motorway in the canton of Fribourg, killing him. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151120/cop-acquitted-after-driving-over-and-killing-man Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:49:06 +0100 cop-acquitted-after-driving-over-and-killing-man A 56-year-old woman died after being thrown from a horse during a training exercise at a riding school in the canton of Vaud, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150625/equestrian-dies-after-being-thrown-from-horse Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:07:19 +0200 equestrian-dies-after-being-thrown-from-horse A 49-year-old Irishman has confessed to savagely stabbing his wife to death in the vineyard village of Lutry in the canton of Vaud earlier this week, police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150326/irishman-confesses-to-stabbing-wife-50-times Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:35:40 +0100 irishman-confesses-to-stabbing-wife-50-times A worker who visited an apartment in the vineyard village of Lutry to do some work got a shock when he discovered a dead 46-year-old woman soaked in blood, Vaud cantonal police said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150324/irishmans-dead-wife-found-soaked-in-blood Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:10:32 +0100 irishmans-dead-wife-found-soaked-in-blood Vaud cantonal police on Thursday sought help from the public in tracking down three men suspected of armed robbery at a jewellery shop in Montreux. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150115/police-track-montreux-jewellery-shop-robbers Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:36:00 +0100 police-track-montreux-jewellery-shop-robbers The daughter and grandson of a man in his 80s, who died in front of his home at the east end of Lake Geneva last November, have admitted to killing him, Vaud cantonal police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150108/daughter-and-grandson-admit-killing-senior Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:06:00 +0100 daughter-and-grandson-admit-killing-senior Searchers in the canton of Vaud discovered on Wednesday the body of a Polish teenager who went missing earlier this month. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141119/body-of-missing-teenage-polish-hiker-found Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:11:00 +0100 body-of-missing-teenage-polish-hiker-found Just ahead of his retirement Philippe Vautier, chief prosecutor for the northern part of the canton of Vaud, has officially closed the books on an investigation into a sensational murder case — without finding a suspect. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141027/stabbing-murder-of-pole-declared-cold-case Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:27:00 +0100 stabbing-murder-of-pole-declared-cold-case Investigators are seeking witnesses after a police car ran over a 22-year-old man who died on the A1 motorway in the canton of Fribourg last week as officers responded to an assault complaint from another man who was with the victim earlier. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140902/witnesses-sought-after-police-car-runs-over-man Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:31:00 +0200 witnesses-sought-after-police-car-runs-over-man In the second fatal drowning in Lake Geneva in as many days a 20-year-old man died after swimming near a beach at La Tour-de-Peilz in the canton of Vaud, cantonal police said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140819/lake-geneva-drownings-claim-two-lives Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:42:00 +0200 lake-geneva-drownings-claim-two-lives Vaud cantonal police were seeking witnesses after a 32-year-old man was stabbed to death in Vevey on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140721/police-seek-witnesses-in-vevey-stabbing-death Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:52:00 +0200 police-seek-witnesses-in-vevey-stabbing-death A 48-year-old Swiss man died after falling 100 metres into a ravine above the village of Les Diablerets in the Vaud Alps, cantonal police said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140610/hiker-dies-after-fall-in-vaud-alps-ravine Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:00:00 +0200 hiker-dies-after-fall-in-vaud-alps-ravine Eighteen young people aged 14 to 18 are suspected of assaulting other youths as part of an organized gang in Yverdon-les-Bains, say Vaud cantonal police, who are investigating the death of Dylan, a 17-year-old boy. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140314/vaud-police-detain-16-youths-over-gang-murder Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:46:00 +0100 vaud-police-detain-16-youths-over-gang-murder Authorities who tolerated a homeless man living in a publicly owned warehouse in the centre of a Lausanne suburb are now having second thoughts after he died in a fire that broke out on Sunday night. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140217/homeless-squatter-dies-in-publicly-owned-building Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:30:00 +0100 homeless-squatter-dies-in-publicly-owned-building The residents of a village in the canton of Vaud want to change the name of their street after one of their neighbours was arrested in connection with nine deliberately set fires there. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140130/town-residents-sign-petition-over-burning-issue Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:07:00 +0100 town-residents-sign-petition-over-burning-issue