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The drug scene at the the old train station Letten in Zurich, Switzerland, pictured in August 1994. At peak times over a thousand drug abusers frequented the Letten, the successor of the open drug scene at the Platzspitz park. (KEYSTONE/Martin Ruetschi) Die Drogenszene am ehemaligen Bahnhof Letten in Zuerich, aufgenommen im August 1994. Der Letten, Nachfolger der offenen Szene auf dem Platzspitzareal, wurde in Spitzenzeiten von ueber tausend Drogenkonsumenten frequentiert. (KEYSTONE/Martin Ruetschi)

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This content was published on It’s 30 years since Zurich’s Needle Park was cleared, but open drug scenes are on the rise again in Swiss cities.

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What factors should be taken into account when inheriting Swiss citizenship abroad?

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