{"id":15560,"date":"2026-02-22T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15560\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:42:11","slug":"police-in-swiss-city-face-new-crisis-after-teens-death-in-chase-sparks-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15560\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in Swiss city face new crisis after teen\u2019s death in chase sparks unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lausanne authorities sought on Tuesday to head off a third night of violence in the Swiss city following the death of a teenager fleeing police on a scooter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The unrest comes with the Olympic capital\u2019s police in the spotlight after four officers were suspended on Monday following the unearthing of racist, sexist and discriminatory messages in private WhatsApp groups.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A 17-year-old Swiss resident of Lausanne, fleeing police on a scooter reported stolen on Saturday, hit a wall and died early on Sunday, despite resuscitation attempts by emergency services.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was the third death in less than three months in Lausanne during a police intervention. There have been seven such deaths in the city and the wider Vaud region since 2016. Five involved men of African origin.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Sunday night, \u201caround 100 young people, wearing balaclavas\u201d set fire to several containers and damaged a bus, police said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The following night, 150\u2013200 people set up roadblocks using rubbish containers, setting them on fire, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lausanne authorities sought on Tuesday to head off a third night of violence in the Swiss city following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10970,10971,10972,94,10973,10974,10975,10976,10978,10977,41,10979,10980,10981,10982],"class_list":{"0":"post-15560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lausanne","8":"tag-african-origin","9":"tag-gregoire-junod","10":"tag-keystone-ats-news-agency","11":"tag-lausanne","12":"tag-lausanne-mayor","13":"tag-olympic-capital","14":"tag-pierre-antoine-hildbrand","15":"tag-racist","16":"tag-scooter","17":"tag-sexist-and-discriminatory-messages","18":"tag-swiss","19":"tag-teenager","20":"tag-vaud","21":"tag-vaud-region","22":"tag-whatsapp-groups"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}