High speed car thefts continue

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The spate of car thefts by very young drivers continues.

For the past few months, luxury cars have been going missing from garage forecourts and been driven at very high speed through Switzerland and into France. 

Geneva police chased four cars on Monday morning through Vernier. One skidded and crashed and the 16-year-old driver was arrested. 

The other cars were found in the Bois-des-Frères sports centre car park in Vernier – with no sign of the drivers. 

The cars had been taken from a garage in Sierre.

Police believe the teens are acting on behalf of criminal gangs in France. 

 

 

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