Truck sinks on the road

Apartment fire in Hinwil causes serious injuries

lia. One person was seriously injured in an apartment fire on Thursday afternoon (October 27) in Hinwil, as the Zurich cantonal police announced a few hours later.

According to the police, shortly before 3 p.m., the protection and rescue operations center received a report that there was a fire in an apartment building. Employees of a scaffolding company, who were at work next to the affected property, were able to evacuate around a dozen residents before the rescue workers arrived.

The fire brigade, which was immediately alerted, quickly brought the fire that had broken out in the apartment under control and was able to prevent the flames from spreading to the rest of the house. The 61-year-old resident of the apartment had to be flown to a hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.

The damage caused by the fire is estimated at tens of thousands of francs. Because of the fire, Täusistrasse had to be closed for around two hours. The cause of the fire is currently unknown and is being clarified by the fire investigation service of the Zurich cantonal police.

Truck sinks on the street in downtown Zurich – the salvage is complex because of the gas pipeline

bye. On Thursday at 5 a.m., a truck sank on Talstrasse in Zurich’s district 1. The fire brigade and police deployed in large numbers, according to a statement from the Zurich Protection and Rescue Service on Thursday (October 27).

Construction work is currently underway on the affected section of road. Therefore, according to the protection and rescue service, the road was apparently undermined. The truck that had been used to clean the asphalt sank on the washed-out valley road with the front right wheel.

The salvage was complicated by the fact that there are gas and water pipes below the road. These were switched off immediately for safety reasons. The emergency services also immediately secured the truck with a pioneer vehicle and gave it a slight pull. In the course of the work, the truck sank in with both front wheels due to the washed-out road.

Finally, the emergency services were able to lift the truck out together with a special vehicle called out by a private towing company. No people were injured in the event. The operation was completed after around four and a half hours.

The city police cordoned off the area of ​​operation and informed via the traffic information service Via Suisse that the area of ​​operation should be bypassed on a large scale.

The professional fire brigade from protection and rescue was on duty with a tank pumper, a pioneer vehicle, a measuring bus and a command vehicle that was only recently put into operation. The latter including leadership support from members of the militia fire brigade. City police officers, members of the transport company, employees of Energie 360° and the water supply, the traffic department, the civil engineering department and finally the private towing company were also at the scene of the accident.

Drug dealer arrested in Richterswil

bye. At the Richterswil train station, investigators from the cantonal police observed three people dealing in narcotics on Tuesday afternoon. During the subsequent inspection of the 39-year-old customer from Switzerland, the police found 10 grams of heroin, according to a statement on Thursday (October 27).

The control of the drug dealer showed that the 24-year-old Albanian was allegedly staying in Switzerland illegally. He was arrested. A total of around 700 grams of heroin, 20 grams of cocaine, over a kilogram of dropping agents and several thousand francs in cash were seized.

Zurich public prosecutor arranges arrest of telephone scammers in Turkey

sho. Recently, phone scams have been on the rise, particularly through so-called shock calls. A caller pretends to be a police officer and tries to extort money, primarily from senior citizens, with reference to an accident in which a relative is allegedly involved.

Now the Public Prosecutor’s Office II of the Canton of Zurich has struck a blow against such fraudsters. At her request, the law enforcement authorities in Turkey, together with the responsible public prosecutor’s office, carried out a raid and house searches in the Turkish city of Izmir and made various seizures.

According to the announcement on Wednesday (October 26), more than two dozen people were arrested. You are suspected of having deprived a large number of victims in Switzerland of large amounts of money as telephone fraudsters.

According to the communiqué, extensive investigative work by a special commission of the cantonal police and the Zurich city police in cooperation with the Zurich public prosecutor’s office made the action possible. The Federal Office of Justice and the Federal Police Fedpol were also involved. The investigations are now being continued by the Zurich and Turkish authorities.

66 kilograms of khat found in drug mule’s luggage

bye. A 47-year-old man traveled from Johannesburg to Zurich. He intended to fly on to London from Zurich Airport. When checking his luggage on Tuesday morning (October 25), the canton police seized around 66 kilograms of khat. The Englishman was arrested and brought to the competent public prosecutor’s office in Winterthur/Unterland, as stated in a communiqué.

Telephone scammers arrested – police warn of shock calls

bye. A new criminal phenomenon is rampant. The Zurich cantonal police call the offenses related to the so-called false police officers shock calls. Callers not only pretend to be police officers, they also talk about accidents in which relatives are allegedly involved. They want to put pressure on elderly people to withdraw money and hand it over to them.

Last Wednesday in Thalwil, a pensioner received such a shock call. He was told that his son had caused a serious traffic accident. In addition, it was made plausible to him that the son’s impending prison sentence could be averted by paying bail. Because of the alleged time pressure, the pensioner went to the bank to get cash and deposited jewelry and hand it over to the wrong police officer.

The day after, on Thursday, a similar case occurred, as the Zurich cantonal police announced on Tuesday (October 25). A 71-year-old man told the police station at Winterthur train station that he had received a call from an alleged traffic police officer after midday. It was said that his daughter was responsible for a fatal car accident and that he could prevent her being transferred to custody by paying a large amount of money.

In addition to the pseudo-traffic policeman, he also had telephone contact with an alleged public prosecutor. Because of the facts that sounded plausible and the alleged time pressure, the person called decided to get 50,000 Swiss francs in cash from the bank.

After withdrawing the money, he realized that it was a scam: his daughter happened to call him. She informed him that she was fine and that she had not caused a traffic accident.

Shortly thereafter, investigators were able to arrest the suspected money collector, a 27-year-old Polish national, at Winterthur train station. After being questioned by the police, he was brought to the responsible public prosecutor’s office.

The cantonal police warn against shock calls. She writes: “Don’t let yourself be tempted to make short-term and ill-considered decisions on the phone, no matter how credible a situation is portrayed.” An impending prison sentence can never be averted by paying bail. The treatment of an accident victim is never dependent on the prior payment of a sum of money.

You can find more information about telephone fraud here: www.telefonfraud.ch.

Man charged with murder after death of homeless man

lia. On October 10, the Public Prosecutor’s Office I of the Canton of Zurich filed charges against a man at the Zurich District Court for murder and other offences. This was announced by the canton’s senior public prosecutor on Tuesday (October 25). The man is accused of killing a homeless person at the Bachwiesen community center in district 9 in September 2021.

After completing the investigation, the public prosecutor assumes that the then 20-year-old first committed various damage to property in the city of Zurich on his way home from the exit in the early morning of September 19, 2021. According to the indictment at the GZ Bachwiesen, he is said to have first insulted a defenseless 66-year-old homeless person who was sleeping outdoors in a sleeping bag and then killed him with massive blunt force. The accused filmed the violent action with his mobile phone.

The neighborhood then alerted the police. They were able to arrest the alleged perpetrator at the scene of the crime. He confessed to the crime a few days after the arrest.

The public prosecutor’s office will only make applications for the sentence at the main hearing. The suspect is presumed innocent until a final conviction.

Activists let air out of SUV tires again in Zurich

top. The activist group The Tire Extinguishers allegedly let air out of the tires of 30 SUVs in Zurich Fluntern on Monday night (October 24). This is what the climate activists write on their website.

The activist group, which originally comes from Great Britain, was already on the road in Zurich in April. The activists write on their website that their goal is to fight climate change and fight back against air pollution and dangerous drivers.

A telephone scammer stole money and valuables from a pensioner in Thalwil

top. A telephone fraudster stole money and valuables worth tens of thousands of francs from a 68-year-old pensioner from Thalwil on Wednesday (October 19). The unknown perpetrator told him on the phone that his son had caused a serious traffic accident, as the Zurich cantonal police wrote in a statement on Monday (October 24). He assured the pensioner that his son would not have to go to jail if bail was high enough. The 68-year-old man then ran to the bank to get cash and jewelry deposited there. A little later he handed over the money and valuables to an unknown man.