Mi, Jan 3rd 2024
The police have caught the perpetrator of the armed robbery at the station post office in Yverdon-les-Bains VD. Most of the loot was recovered.
A few days ago we covered a story on armed robbery in the Yverdon-les-Bains region. At the time of publishing, the criminal was still at large.
The perpetrator is a 69-year-old Romanian of no fixed abode, as the Vaud cantonal police announced on Wednesday. The man was arrested on Tuesday in a hotel in the north of Vaud by a task force consisting of officers from the cantonal police and the Lausanne municipal police. He has confessed to the crime.
While it was initially thought the robbery was committed with a gun. Over the last few days those investigating have come to retrieve the weapon used in the crime, a standard issue air-soft gun. The police have also retrieved most of the loot.
At around 10.00 a.m. last Saturday, the perpetrator threatened a counter employee with a weapon and demanded in broken English that she empty her till. The woman complied and gave him mainly rolls of coins and some banknotes worth between 10 and 100 francs, which he took away in two plastic bags. The amount taken was not disclosed. No one was injured during the robbery.
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