Long prison sentences for money transporter robbery
Published: Friday, Jan 26th 2024, 20:00
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On Friday, a court in Lyon, France, sentenced the six perpetrators of a robbery of an armored car near Nyon VD in 2017 to several years in prison. They received unconditional prison sentences of between seven and 20 years. Three of the defendants were sentenced in absentia and have been on the run for a year.
The six men are between 39 and 54 years old. Most of them come from the suburbs of Lyon. The convicts robbed a cash van on the A1 between Geneva and Lausanne in May 2017. The perpetrators pretended to be police officers. They threatened the couriers with assault rifles, locked them in the trunks of two cars and drove them across the border to France. There they forced one of the couriers to open the cash van.
A few hours after the crime, the men were arrested in a villa in Haute-Savoie - the authorities had been observing them for nine months at the time. They were in possession of banknotes in various currencies, four gold bars and several thousand precious stones with an estimated total value of more than 40 million francs.
The crime was part of a series of robberies involving the transportation of money and valuables in Vaud between 2017 and 2019. Similar robberies also took place in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Daillens, La Sarraz and Chavornay. The Vaud State Council subsequently tightened the rules for cash transports. As a result, the series of robberies, for which the law enforcement authorities blame gangs from the greater Lyon area, came to an end.
Most of the suspects were tried in France. Vaud courts have so far convicted three people for the robberies in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne and Chavornay - two Genevans and an Algerian national.
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