The father of Fergus McInnes, a Scot who disappeared in Switzerland three weeks ago, fears he may have been violently robbed or subjected to a traumatic experience which sparked amnesia.
Ahead of Switzerland’s crucial clash against France in the FIFA World Cup tonight, Swiss police have warned they will fine car drivers who obscure indicators on rear-view mirrors with decorative World Cup flags.
If you ever wanted to speed through Geneva, litter or jay-walk, this might be the best time: police in the Swiss city have stopped handing out fines in protest against a planned salary cut.
A civilian police employee in the town of Wasen, west-central Switzerland, has been accused of installing secret cameras in the changing room and showers of a gym.
A former Basel police detective received a ten-month suspended jail sentence on Monday for using his position to acquire and re-sell illegal machine guns, firearms, hand grenades and other accessories.
A 55-year-old American man died and four others were seriously injured on Tuesday when a hot-air balloon crashed to the ground after hitting a power line in the canton of Fribourg, police said.
Police in the canton of Schwyz have arrested the operator of a transport gondola that crashed on Saturday killing a couple and seriously injuring their baby.
An elderly Zurich husband and wife were swindled out of 400,000 francs by a woman pretending to be their granddaughter in one of the largest such scams on record in Switzerland, police said on Monday.
Saint Gallen cantonal police arrested a 41-year-old Swiss man after a retired Italian couple were shot dead on Monday on the street where they lived in Saint Margrethen, a town near the Austrian border.
A 60-year-old man was shot to death in the city of Basel on Sunday while his wife and daughter were injured after a man opened fire on the family in a domestic dispute.
Switzerland needs 1,500 more police officers to deal with foreign gangs and rising cases of burglaries and thefts, according to the working group of the conference for cantonal justice and police ministers.
<p>An animal-loving Swiss prosecutor has astonished the police force by launching criminal proceedings against two officers who failed to look after an injured cat.</p>
