Obviously, Halloween night was not easy in Switzerland. This festival, which traditionally celebrates the passage between the world of the living and that of spirits, required the police to intervene in different places.
In the canton of Geneva, the police observed numerous gatherings of young people during the night from Thursday to Friday. The teenagers, wearing masks, played a game of cat and mouse with the police or firefighters, sometimes targeting them with fireworks. Before quickly dispersing.
In Thônex (GE), a minor was arrested after slightly injuring a police officer with mortar fire, said Geneva police spokesperson Alexandre Brahier. The police carried out several identity checks on young people. The latter were then returned to their parents.
Egg Alert
In the city of Zurich, the police were alerted around thirty times for events linked to Halloween. Eggs being thrown against facades and vehicles were reported. In Uster (ZH), the police went so far as to specify that they had “seized 70 eggs just before they could have been thrown against facades”. In Altstetten, unknown persons set fire to two containers, and “eggs were thrown at buses”, said a spokesperson.
But overall, the young people of Zurich knew how to scare (themselves) by avoiding committing depredations.
In the canton of Aargau, pranksters blew up some mailboxes with firecrackers, among other incidents. Police reported seizing “pyrotechnic devices, laser pointers, knives, eggs and hoods.” A prevention campaign made it possible to limit the damage, underlines the police.
A comparable observation in the canton of Solothurn, where a reinforced uniformed presence largely prevented significant damage from being committed.
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