Trial opens into CHF40 million Swiss cash convoy heist

The trial of a CHF40 million cash truck robbery in Switzerland in 2017 is due to open on Monday in Lyon, France, in the absence of three of the six defendants, who are still wanted. This time last year, the court decided to adjourn the proceedings due to the absence of half of the accused, who had all been arrested in 2017 shortly after the robbery in the Swiss canton of Vaud and subsequently placed under judicial supervision. + Why is Switzerland a target for cash truck heists? Contacted by AFP last week, their lawyers said they had no news of the three missing defendants, who were considered to be “deliberately at large" and subject to arrest warrants. The trial had already been adjourned for the first time until 2021, one of the defendants having contracted Covid. The six defendants, aged between 39 and 54 and mostly from the Lyon region, were arrested in a villa in Haute-Savoie, a few hours after the night-time attack on a cash-in-transit van belonging to the Loomis...