Keystone-SDA
The big police intervention on Thursday afternoon in the building of the UBS bank in Place Saint-François in Lausanne was linked to a potential hostage-taking, the municipal police said on Friday. In the end, it turned out that there was no attack in progress. The public prosecutor has not opened an investigation.
(Keystone-ATS) “Shortly after 2:00 p.m., the Vaudoise police station was informed that a potential hostage -taking was underway within the bank. In view of this disturbing information, a substantial police system was quickly set up. Subsequently, the information collected on site made it possible to exclude any security problem, ”wrote the Lausanne police in a press release.
For the purposes of the intervention, the banks of the bank were secured. At no time did the population be in danger and there was no one injured. Traffic has not been disrupted, the police specify. The intervention ended at 3:10 p.m., after a lifting of doubt by the speakers, she adds.
Among the thirty committed police officers were in particular the Lausanne police intervention group (GIPL) and the detachment of rapid action and deterrence (DARD) of the canton of Vaud.