{"id":41065,"date":"2026-03-29T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/41065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:53:06","slug":"gang-steals-chf1-7m-worth-of-cars-and-number-plates-in-eastern-switzerland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/41065\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang steals CHF1.7m worth of cars and number plates in eastern Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cb5b59d267ec4c2709c700a92c5e8e31125cec5a-91176407.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Car thefts worth 1.7 million francs in eastern Switzerland\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                The Thurgau authorities arrested three people: a 31-year-old woman and two men, aged 24 and 43 &#8211; all from France.            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        Thieves stole luxury cars and licence plates on Saturday worth over CHF1.7 million ($2.1 million) in cantons St Gallen and Thurgau, Swiss police reported on Sunday. Police arrested three people from France.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        March 29, 2026 &#8211; 13:32\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Muolen, canton St Gallen, thieves stole two cars worth a total of over CHF200,000 on Saturday night, according to the St Gallen cantonal police.<\/p>\n<p>At around 2:30am, several unknown persons forced their way into a car dealership and stole the keys to the vehicles, according to the police. They took the cars outside and then fled in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Thurgau cantonal police, the cars stolen in Muolen were seized at 6:30am on Sunday during a check in Frauenfeld, canton Thurgau. Vehicles that had been stolen in a similar burglary in Engwilen, canton Thurgau, were also discovered there.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774788369_385_da4fe6aaca80d17d9203fe78e6001a43f115b5e4-91141939.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"The number of offences in Switzerland fell in 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss Politics\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss crime fell in 2025 but homicides and serious violence rose    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Mar 23, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland recorded 554,963 criminal offences in 2025, a decrease of 1.5% compared to the previous year.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-politics\/swiss-crime-fell-in-2025-but-homicides-and-serious-violence-rose\/91142470\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss crime fell in 2025 but homicides and serious violence rose<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Thurgau authorities arrested three people, according to a statement. They included a 31-year-old woman and two men, aged 24 and 43 \u2013 all from France.<\/p>\n<p>During the same period, other break-ins were reported in canton Thurgau in Matzingen, W\u00e4ldi and Hagenwil. The criminals\u2019 targets were car keys and number plates. The total value of stolen goods in Thurgau amounted to over CHF1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from French by AI\/sb<\/p>\n<p>                How we work\u00a0            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. 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