News item in Geneva - General fight at dawn: a driver runs into people

Home |Switzerland |French-speaking Switzerland |

News item – General fight at dawn: a driver rushes into people in the rue d'Italie

A nightclub outing in the city center that goes very wrong. It was this Thursday at 6 a.m. in front of the Ella-Maillart School of General Culture. The Criminal Squad is appealing for witnesses.

A downtown street cordoned off in both directions for a good half-day and, right in the middle, a wrecked car, surrounded by police who are busy with measuring devices. It's enough to ignite social networks and give work to investigators.

In fact, at dawn, at the end of the night from Wednesday to Thursday, a general fight along the rue d'Italie, near the Ella-Maillart School of General Culture. The implicated, an undetermined number, are not students still on vacation, more likely customers of a nearby nightclub, located on rue du Prince. The nocturnal establishment closes at 5 a.m., the time slot for repeated confusion.

This is major and its consequences are serious. “A conflict broke out on the street,” explains Geneva police spokesperson Jean-Philippe Brandt. A man, originally from Togo, born in 1993, then took his car and drove into the people present. A 21-year-old Swiss woman was hit by the vehicle. Injured, she had to be rushed to hospital. Immediately after the collision, a group rushed to extract the motorist from his cabin and start beating him.

Several police patrols intervened at this moment to avoid the lynching of the driver, who was injured in the head, his airbag not having been triggered when he finished his race against a car normally parked at the height of the entrance to the school of general culture. Frontal collision, the front pressed, but the blows, undoubtedly with the hand and with the feet, are marked on all the faces of the sedan. She won't drive anymore.

At the beginning of the afternoon, this Thursday, August 26, the defendant, also injured, had still not been heard by the Criminal Brigade. Neither did the young victim. This same brigade is appealing for witnesses, particularly to the people who filmed the scene with their mobile phones. Please dial 022 427 72 40. Investigation in progress and hours of hearings in perspective, in connection with an outing that went wrong and which, criminally, could be reclassified as attempted homicide.

Found an error? Please let us know.

Themes