4-time world champion reportedly sustained a head damage throughout an alleged theft in his Swiss dwelling earlier this week.
In line with a report in Swiss tabloid Blick late on Friday, the 71-year-old Prost suffered a head damage from intruders who pressured his son to open a protected in the course of the theft on Tuesday morning.
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Swiss police are actually investigating the incident.
“The perpetrators entered the residence whereas the occupants had been current, threatened them, and compelled one member of the family to open a protected earlier than fleeing with the stolen items,” the general public prosecutor’s workplace stated in a press release.
“Regardless of the intensive search operation launched, the perpetrators haven’t but been apprehended at this stage.”
The police didn’t identify the sufferer however stated that a number of balaclava-earing intruders broke into the home.
Alain Prost is now 71 years previous (Getty)
“As soon as inside, they threatened the occupants and inflicted minor head accidents upon one member of the family, underneath circumstances that stay to be established,” added the police.
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“The perpetrators then pressured one other member of the family to open a protected earlier than making their escape with stolen gadgets, a exact stock of which is presently being compiled.”
In line with the Blick studies, Prost was “visibly shaken by this brutal intrusion” and has since left the house, which is in Nyon, beside Lake Geneva.
Prost is a icon and racked up 4 Drivers’ World Championships between 1985 and 1993, racing for Williams, McLaren and Ferrari throughout his illustrious profession.
Prost had a fierce rivalry with, and was briefly a teammate of, Ayrton Senna (Getty)
He had a fierce and legendary rivalry with the late , which culminated in title-deciding collisions at Suzuka in 1989 and 1990, even thought the pair was McLaren teammates on the time of the previous.
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The Frenchman, nicknamed “the Professor” held the data for many podiums (106), most wins (51) and quickest laps (41) in F1 on the time of his retirement, though these numbers have since been surpassed.
Extra reporting from Related Press
