![]() | The armored vehicle transporting the cash was driving on a highway toward Lausanne, Switzerland, around 7:45 a.m. Thursday when it was robbed. The driver was forced to leave the highway and pull into a parking lot before the van was emptied by armed men wearing hoods near the village of Chavornay. |
![]() | Kidnappers held the daughter of one of the security guards hostage in France. The 22-year-old daughter was released after the heist, and three men escaped in a luxury sport utility vehicle from the parking lot at Chavornay. The heist was intricately planned and executed. There were no injuries and no arrests have been made. | ![]() |
![]() | French police have arrested a cash van driver and his daughter, who claimed she was held to ransom while a gang robbed millions from her father's vehicle in Switzerland. The 22-year-old daughter told police she was kidnapped from her apartment in the southeastern French city of Lyon by two men posing as plumbers. She said the men bundled her into a car, tied her up and forced her to telephone her father who works for SOS Surveillance, a Swiss company that transports cash in armoured vans, to demand a ransom. | ![]() |