Zurich police recently published video footage showing football fans rioting in a stadium. The violent images shocked the Swiss public and questions are increasingly being raised as to how to tackle the problem. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
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But while the former want to crack down and make life hard for trouble-makers, the latter are wary of implementing proposals such as combined “fan tickets” – which cover train fare and entrance to the stadium – and obligatory licences to hold matches. Speaking in Bern at the tenth and final round table on violence…
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The move has been widely welcomed, but Zurich lawyer Markus Bischoff tells swissinfo.ch why he is concerned about people being pilloried online before they have been convicted of anything. Bischoff sits in Zurich cantonal parliament as a member of the leftwing “Alternative List” party. swissinfo.ch: The police’s latest method of hunting criminals is clearly successful…
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Every season rampaging fans cause about SFr3 million ($3.5 million) worth of damage to trains. The destruction caused after May’s Swiss Cup final alone went into five figures. “Things can’t go on as they are,” Peter Füglistaler, head of the Federal Transport Office, told the Sunday newspapers NZZ am Sonntag and Le Matin Dimanche. “It’s…
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