By PERKIN AMALARAJ, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER
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Swiss police have berated a British YouTuber for driving 'like a maniac' across the Alps.
'Jay P', a British influencer with 133,000 followers on Instagram, shared a now-deleted video with his 15,000 YouTube subscribers titled: 'I drove 12 hours to Swiss Alps but it ended badly.'
In the video, a clip of which was shared to his Instagram, one member of the group he was travelling with was seen getting reprimanded by Swiss police.
As the group tore through the Swiss countryside in a fleet of supercars, cops suddenly stopped them.
One member of the entourage was asked to step out of his car, before a cop shouted: 'You're driving like a maniac!'
'This is Switzerland, not f***ing Britain,' the cop added angrily as a man filming the incident cackled from inside his car.
As the Briton was being chided, another person said: 'Look, his brakes are smoking. The police have got him.'
In the short clip shared to Instagram, a man was heard repeatedly shouting 'pressure' as a sports car in front of him sped down a mountain road.
The British man was seen getting berated by a Swiss cop
Jay P (pictured) watched the incident, and cackled as he heard his friend being told off
Footage also showed an open-top car narrowly avoiding a collision with a white van on the mountain pass. Another section of the video showed a man in a black sports car doing doughnuts on a Swiss road.
Local media reported that the incident took place around the Susten Pass on October 15, and involved a group of around 20 supercars including a McLaren 720S and an Audi R8 V10.
Blick, a Swiss newspaper, reported that in the now-deleted video a man was heard urging the driver to overtake vehicles on the road: 'Take them all, all the way to the hairpin, you're clear!'
One man shouted: 'Street racer!'
Following the row with police, Jay P reportedly said in the video that the cops dealt with his group like they were 'children', adding: 'The Swiss police don't have a sense of humour.'
Footage indicated that the officers were part of the Uri cantonal police.
The force told Blick that the officers in the clip were not aware that they were being filmed, though suspected they were being recorded.
One man was seen performing doughnuts on a Swiss road
A car in the entourage nearly collided with a white van during the drive
They added that they are reviewing the footage they received on Wednesday and are 'examining whether the video footage provides evidence of any criminal offences against the road traffic law and what further steps may be necessary'.
20 Minuten, a Swiss media group, reported that no violations of traffic laws were found during the initial stop but that the force had informed other police services in neighbouring cantons of the incident.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Jay P for comment.
