{"id":689867,"date":"2026-05-23T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689867\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:30:09","slug":"alain-prost-formula-1-great-injured-in-masked-raid-swiss-media-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689867\/","title":{"rendered":"Alain Prost: Formula 1 great injured in masked raid, Swiss media says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formula 1 great Alain Prost suffered a head injury when a masked gang raided his home, Swiss media reports claim.<\/p>\n

The violent robbery took place at the home of the French four-time world champion in Nyon, about 25km north of Geneva, according to Blick., external<\/a><\/p>\n

Police have confirmed a family was targeted by robbers at around 8:30am on Tuesday, but have not released the victims’ identities.<\/p>\n

“Several masked individuals entered the house. Once inside, they threatened the occupants and slightly injured one family member in the head, under circumstances that are still being investigated,” a statement from the Vaud cantonal police force said.<\/p>\n

“The perpetrators then forced another family member to open a safe before fleeing,” it added.<\/p>\n

It said the value of the items stolen was still being assessed.<\/p>\n

A “large-scale search operation” was launched involving both Swiss and French police and border security, while a psychological support team has been provided to the family, police added..<\/p>\n

Prost, 71, drove for McLaren, Renault, Ferrari and Williams in a 13-year F1 career, winning the world title in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993.<\/p>\n

Only Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, with seven titles each, and Juan Manuel Fangio, with five, have won more championships than Prost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 great Alain Prost suffered a head injury when a masked gang raided his home, Swiss media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-689867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689867","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=689867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}