{"id":689711,"date":"2026-05-23T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:42:09","slug":"former-f1-world-champion-alain-prost-reportedly-injured-in-robbery-at-swiss-home-formula-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689711\/","title":{"rendered":"Former F1 world champion Alain Prost reportedly injured in robbery at Swiss home | Formula One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Swiss police are investigating an alleged robbery with reports that the four-times Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/sep\/16\/alain-prost-renault-back-top-difficult-interesting\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>was injured during a home invasion. The Swiss tabloid Blick reported late on Friday that the 71-year-old Frenchman sustained a head injury from intruders who forced his son to open a safe during the incident on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe perpetrators entered the residence while the occupants were present, threatened them, and forced one family member to open a safe before fleeing with the stolen goods,\u201d the public prosecutor\u2019s office said. \u201cDespite the extensive search operation launched, the perpetrators have not yet been apprehended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The police, who did not name the victim, said several balaclava-wearing intruders \u201cbroke into the house. Once inside, they threatened the occupants and inflicted minor head injuries upon one family member, under circumstances that remain to be established.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The perpetrators then forced another family member to open a safe before making their escape with stolen items, a precise inventory of which is currently being compiled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Blick reported that Prost, who won four world championships between 1985-1993, was \u201cvisibly shaken by this brutal intrusion\u201d and that he has left the home in Nyon beside Lake Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiss police are investigating an alleged robbery with reports that the four-times Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-689711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}