Its goal is not yet clear, but there is no doubt: a major police operation has been underway at La Bourdonnette since the very beginning of the afternoon. According to several readers, this is a large-scale deployment; a threatening person could be holed up in one of the neighborhood’s towers.
“There are at least fifty police officers,” testifies Guillaume, a resident of La Bourdonnette. I see some hidden in several places, ready to intervene… We were asked not to go out. There’s action!”
“There are police officers in army uniforms, others in black, they are all armed,” describes another resident. The neighborhood is surrounded, my daughter wanted to go out to the cinema, but she was told to go home. It’s scary…” Although the information has not been confirmed by the police, rumors in the neighborhood report gunshots.
The Lausanne police confirm at this stage that an intervention is underway, including in particular the intervention groups of the City and the Canton, the GIPL and the DARD. The roads are open, assures its spokesperson Alexia Hagenlocher, although the TL communicated about a diversion at the beginning of the afternoon.
