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Man arrested for calling Swiss police 59 times

A Swiss man has cried wolf one too many times. The 33-year-old was arrested in Geneva on Wednesday for calling the police emergency number 59 times since the beginning of the year.

Man arrested for calling Swiss police 59 times
File photo: Steven Lilley

According to news agency ATS the man made the numerous 117 calls in order to get police to come to his home, for no reason in particular.

His actions finally reached a head last week when he called the number around 5.30am to say he had hurt himself with a knife.

When police arrived at his residence they found him uninjured.

The man admitted that he wanted police to come to his home so they could drive him to his mother’s place, Geneva police said in a statement given to ATS on Wednesday.

The police call centre then confirmed that the man had phoned them 59 times since January 1st, and that he’d made 15 calls on the day in question alone.

Making unnecessary phone calls to emergency services in Switzerland can incur a prison sentence of up to three years.  

Switzerland has different emergency numbers depending on the service required.

Residents should call 117 for police, 118 for the fire service and 144 for an ambulance.

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Six injured as car rams into crowd in Switzerland

Five children and a woman were injured on Sunday when a car accidentally rammed into people gathered for a target shooting festival in Switzerland, police said.

Six injured as car rams into crowd in Switzerland

A woman frantically looking for help for an injured child drove into the square in Menieres, in the western Swiss canton of Fribourg, on Sunday where a shooting festival was taking place.

The car slammed into a group of people, injuring a woman and five children, Fribourg police said.

Several ambulances transported the injured to surrounding hospitals after the accident, which happened shortly before 3:30pm.

“Initial information indicates that the driver entered the festival square transporting a child who had been injured during a private activity,” the police said.

“For a reason to be determined by an investigation, she accidentally hit and injured people on the square before coming to a halt.”

The driver, who was not injured, was taken to a police station for questioning.

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