Organised crime still public enemy number one, says Federal Prosecutor
Organised crime is still the top threat facing Switzerland, according to the country's Federal Prosecutor. Valentin Roschacher also said that in comparison the rise in right-wing extremism was a minimal danger.
In an interview with the German-language newspaper “Der Bund”, Roschacher said that highly qualified people committed economic crime, such as money laundering. Such crime was very difficult to track, he said, and called for an increase in the number of specialist investigators.
Despite recognising that the rising trend of right-wing violence was worrying, the Federal Prosecutor said that the threat it posed to Switzerland should not be dramatised. Neo-nazi extremists should not be given a media platform, he said.
Roschacher said that unlike the economic criminals, extreme right-wingers were largely immature youngsters. The neo-nazi scene, he said, was not a particularly intelligent one, and attracted the same kind of people as football hooliganism.
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