Early on Monday evening, police officers opened fire on a man who, according to several witnesses, had been ” seen praying”.
“Everything happened very quickly, but when I saw all the police cars, firemen and sirens, I quickly understood that something serious was going on,” explained Bruno*, an employee of a café in the new railway station district, the scene of a completely unexpected scenario in this city on Monday evening, as if a movie was starting to play in front of the residents’ and railway users’.
According to several witness statements in unison recorded by the newspaper Journal de Morges, the witnesses first saw a man praying and then very agitated on platform No. 4, which separates the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) services from the BAM, the small regional train.
Others mention a knife, and while we wait for the testimony of the gendarmerie that will shed light on this tragedy, the travellers who were still on the scene at 9pm agree that several shots were fired.
A man is said to have been found on the edge of the tracks and the hearse sent to the scene leaves little doubt, even if the lack of official confirmation means that the facts are unclear.
(…) “We can’t stand this neighbourhood any more,” declares one resident. A year ago there was a murder in the kebab shop, people hang around there in the morning and in the evening, and we are starting to get scared. Above all, we have the impression that no one is doing anything to impose law and order.”