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 More than half of candidates for the Zurich cantonal police force fail to qualify because their knowledge of the German language is inadequate, officials say. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150624/half-zurich-police-candidates-fail-german-test Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:32:04 +0200 half-zurich-police-candidates-fail-german-test UPDATED: A 19-year-old man has admitted to killing his father, a former newspaper editor, in the apartment they shared in Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150401/teen-admits-to-killing-father-in-canton-of-zurich Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:56:17 +0200 teen-admits-to-killing-father-in-canton-of-zurich Bashkim Berisha, the former Swiss junior Thai boxing champion sentenced to 14 years in jail for killing a motorist in a dispute over a parking spot, has been deported to his native country of Kosovo, according to a media report. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150302/swiss-deport-thai-boxing-champ-and-murderer Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:17:03 +0100 swiss-deport-thai-boxing-champ-and-murderer A retired Zurich man with dementia was acquitted by a court on Tuesday of criminal responsibility for killing his 65-year-old wife at her request. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150113/retiree-held-not-responsible-for-strangling-wife Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:16:00 +0100 retiree-held-not-responsible-for-strangling-wife The canton of Zurich’s upscale Gold Coast area is buzzing over the arrest of an art dealer’s son for the alleged killing of a 23-year-old man in a villa where the suspect lived in the municipality of Küsnacht. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150105/art-dealer-held-for-gold-coast-murder Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:40:00 +0100 art-dealer-held-for-gold-coast-murder Three children are in hospital, including a six-month-old infant, after a car collided with a family walking across a pedestrian crossing in Oberglatt, a municipality near the Zurich airport, police said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141020/three-kids-hospitalized-in-crossing-car-crash Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:05:00 +0200 three-kids-hospitalized-in-crossing-car-crash The 30-year-old son of a man and woman killed in the canton of Zurich over the weekend is under arrest for allegedly murdering his parents, according to a media report. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141013/son-arrested-for-alleged-murder-of-parents Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:45:00 +0200 son-arrested-for-alleged-murder-of-parents A Zurich court on Thursday convicted an American-born Swiss man of exhibitionism and other offences for masturbating in front of young girls on a streetcar (tram) and in other public places. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131025/zurich-court-convicts-us-born-exhibitionist Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:50:00 +0200 zurich-court-convicts-us-born-exhibitionist A 79-year-old man was fighting for his life on Monday after a car ran into him while he was seated on a bench at a bus stop in the canton of Zurich. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131014/senior-fights-for-life-after-bus-stop-crash Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:50:00 +0200 senior-fights-for-life-after-bus-stop-crash A domestic dispute in a Toys’R’Us store in the canton of Zurich turned deadly on Tuesday when a 28-year-old man used a handgun to shoot his 24-year-old wife before pulling the trigger on himself. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130820/man-dies-after-shooting-wife-in-zurich-toy-store Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:05:00 +0200 man-dies-after-shooting-wife-in-zurich-toy-store Zurich city and cantonal police are looking for a gunman who shot and injured two men on a street in the centre of Switzerland’s largest city on Thursday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130530/police-launch-manhunt-after-downtown-zurich-shooting Fri, 31 May 2013 00:42:00 +0200 police-launch-manhunt-after-downtown-zurich-shooting A 64-year-old woman died after her wheelchair and clothes caught fire while she was smoking a cigarette on a balcony in a Winterthur retirement home, Zurich cantonal police said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130423/smoking-pensioner-dies-after-wheelchair-fire Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:37:00 +0200 smoking-pensioner-dies-after-wheelchair-fire Three Swedish men got a shock surprise in Zurich when police pulled over the two black Volvo station wagons they were in and arrested them at gunpoint. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130405/swedish-tourists-get-shock-welcome-from-zurich-police Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:56:00 +0200 swedish-tourists-get-shock-welcome-from-zurich-police Zurich police arrested a 47-year-old Austrian man on Saturday night after a bus passenger caught without a ticket used a firearm to shoot at officers earlier in the day. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130203/bus-ticket-evader-shoots-at-zurich-police Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:09:00 +0100 bus-ticket-evader-shoots-at-zurich-police A suspect is being held after a 30-year-old Tunisian man was reportedly shot and killed on Sunday at an asylum centre in Embrach, a municipality in the canton of Zurich, cantonal police say. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121203/man-held-for-asylum-centre-shooting Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:58:00 +0100 man-held-for-asylum-centre-shooting