In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, initially unknown perpetrators broke into a restaurant in the Swiss Rhine Valley municipality of Rebstein (canton of St. Gallen) and stole a car there. The following night, shortly before midnight, a police patrol from the Canton of St. Gallen recognized the car they were looking for, followed it and wanted to check it. However, the driver fled through the Rhine Valley to the Vorarlberg market town of Lustenau. That was the end of the line.
The car reported as stolen was spotted shortly before midnight last night by a civilian patrol of the St. Gallen Cantonal Police in the village of Rebstein. Law enforcement officers discreetly followed the car on the main road to Altstätten. There, the stolen car turned over in the parking lot of the Rheintalbuses. When the police tried to stop the car, it fled back the same way. The speed was massively exceeded in some cases.
barrier broken
The patrol followed the escape vehicle with special warning signals. The night drive continued toward the Au customs office, where the car pushed through the barriers and continued on. The car was eventually stopped in Lustenau. At that time, two people had already fled on foot. The two 21- and 29-year-old women who are still in the car – both living in Vorarlberg – were handed over to the Austrian police for further official actions.
Shortly afterwards, a 29-year-old Brazilian turned himself in to the Federal Bureau of Customs and Border Security (BMSF) at the border, where he was arrested and handed over to the police of the canton of St. Gallen. There is no trace of the fourth occupant of the getaway car.
investigations are underway
Four patrols of the cantonal police of St. Gallen and three vehicles of the Austrian police were deployed. The St. Gallen public prosecutor’s office is coordinating further investigations with their Vorarlberg colleagues. The exact involvement of the people in the respective violations is the subject of ongoing investigations by the cantonal police in St. Gallen and the police in Austria.
Source: Krone
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