Cluster: Swiss Identity

Former Red Brigade terrorist can be extradited

This content was published on Dec 21, 1999 (AP) — A former Red Brigade terrorist can be extradited to Italy because his crimes were not political, Switzerland’s highest court ruled Tuesday. Marco Ghiringhelli, 57, absconded from Italy in December 1998 while on temporary release from prison in the northern town of Novara. He had received two life sentences for shooting dead two security…

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Government turns down Hariri appeal

This content was published on Dec 21, 1999 Convicted hijacker Hussein Ali Hariri is likely to stay in a Swiss prison till at least 2004 after the Swiss House of Representatives and Senate turned down a clemency appeal from Hariri on Tuesday. Sitting in joint session, parliamentarians rejected the appeal by 131 to 78 votes. Hariri was convicted in 1988 and given a…

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Lucerne, Chicago sound the high note together

This content was published on Dec 21, 1999 Lucerne’s International Music Festival has signed a three-year partnership agreement with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The accord, which comes into effect in 2001, is for a series of concerts and educational programmes in Lucerne. Under the leadership of CSO Music Director Daniel Barenboim, the orchestra will present three concerts each year at the festival in…

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Substantial Yugoslav assets blocked in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 20, 1999 (AP) — Millions of Swiss francs’ worth of Yugoslav and Serb government assets have been frozen in Switzerland, following the imposition of sanctions earlier this year, an official said Monday. Othmar Wyss, the head of the Swiss government’s export control and sanctions department, declined to give the exact amount of the blocked assets, but said…

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Government names new federal prosecutor

This content was published on Dec 20, 1999 The Swiss government on Monday appointed Valentin Roschacher, a senior police official, to replace Carla Del Ponte as Swiss federal prosecutor. Roschacher, 39, will take up his new post on March 1, the justice ministry said. Del Ponte was nominated in August to head the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and took…

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Riverdance sparks interest in Irish dancing

This content was published on Dec 20, 1999

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Applied arts award: A coffin is the winner

This content was published on Dec 17, 1999 One of the winners of this year’s applied arts awards in Switzerland has invented what could be described as the last thing in design. It is an environment-friendly coffin which, if Thomas Schaad gets the financial backing he needs, will land him with the dead end job he wants. What the jury looks for in…

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Switzerland, Germany vow crackdown on organised crime

This content was published on Dec 17, 1999 Swiss Justice and Police Minister Ruth Dreifuss and German Interior Minister Otto Schily on Friday vowed to join forces in cracking down on drug and arms trafficking, money laundering and terrorism. The two leaders signed a declaration praising crime-fighting measures and cross-border police cooperation enshrined in a document signed earlier this year. Switzerland has signed…

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Jury decides in controversial murder case

This content was published on Dec 17, 1999

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Swiss hand India more documents on Bofors affair

This content was published on Dec 16, 1999 (AP) — Switzerland has given India more bank documents for its investigation into alleged bribery in a $1.4 billion arms deal with Swedish manufacturer Bofors, officials said on Thursday. The documents were handed over to the Indian Embassy on Wednesday after the Federal Department of Justice rejected an appeal from three Indian brothers who claimed…

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