https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Nine people are facing charges of unlawful detention and causing bodily harm in connection with a brutal attack at a mosque in Winterthur in 2016. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180202/nine-charged-over-attack-at-controversial-mosque Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:02:48 +0100 nine-charged-over-attack-at-controversial-mosque A wife in the canton of Aargau has been convicted of a criminal offence for going into her husband’s email account and reading and downloading information without his knowledge. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171220/swiss-court-convicts-woman-for-reading-husbands-emails Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:19:41 +0100 swiss-court-convicts-woman-for-reading-husbands-emails A man who opened fire in a St Gallen mosque in 2014, killing one person during Friday prayers, has been sentenced to 16 years in jail. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171103/man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-st-gallen-mosque-killing Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:19:35 +0100 man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-st-gallen-mosque-killing A driver who ran over and killed a drunk man lying on the road has been cleared of negligent homicide. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170922/driver-acquitted-over-killing-of-drunk-man Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:09:21 +0200 driver-acquitted-over-killing-of-drunk-man A clown who worked with the famous Swiss circus Knie was on Tuesday convicted by a Zurich court of sexual acts with a child and sexual harassment. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170816/swiss-court-convicts-clown-of-sexual-acts-with-a-child Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:06:30 +0200 swiss-court-convicts-clown-of-sexual-acts-with-a-child The Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne has found former leading members of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) guilty of racism over a poster used in its mass immigration initiative campaign in 2011. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170413/svp-ad-ruled-racist-by-swiss-supreme-court Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:00:29 +0200 svp-ad-ruled-racist-by-swiss-supreme-court A Swiss environment group will go to court to try and stop a forthcoming referendum on the government’s energy strategy 2050 because it claims the committee that launched the referendum is lying. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170405/swiss-energy-strategy-referendum-goes-to-court-over-alleged-fake-news Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:40:04 +0200 swiss-energy-strategy-referendum-goes-to-court-over-alleged-fake-news The parents of a murdered Geneva social therapist say the court decision to suspend the trial of her suspected killer is “torture” for them. https://www.thelocal.ch/20161007/murder-victims-family-angry-as-trial-suspended Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:28:40 +0200 murder-victims-family-angry-as-trial-suspended A convicted rapist accused of slitting the throat of his therapist three years ago has gone on trial for murder in Geneva. https://www.thelocal.ch/20161003/man-stands-trial-over-brutal-murder-of-therapist Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:23:36 +0200 man-stands-trial-over-brutal-murder-of-therapist One of three men sentenced in March for supporting terrorist group Islamic State (IS) from Switzerland has been freed from jail. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160911/bomb-plot-suspect-released-from-jail Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:55:13 +0200 bomb-plot-suspect-released-from-jail A court in the canton of Vaud has ordered a man to pay more than 36,000 francs in court costs after it rejected his complaint that his neighbours’ chickens made too much noise. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160831/court-sides-with-chickens-in-dispute-over-noisy-henhouse Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:31:08 +0200 court-sides-with-chickens-in-dispute-over-noisy-henhouse Four Iraqi nationals accused of trying to plant an Islamic State (IS) cell in Switzerland go on trial at the criminal court in Bellinzona on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160229/suspected-swiss-jihadists-hauled-up-before-court Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:05:38 +0100 suspected-swiss-jihadists-hauled-up-before-court A 45-year-old man who crept into women’s homes and stole their underwear will spend more than two years behind bars. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151229/lucerne-underwear-fetishist-jailed-for-two-years Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:57:17 +0100 lucerne-underwear-fetishist-jailed-for-two-years A Swiss court on Friday sentenced a civil servant from Assens near Lausanne in the canton of Vaud to 14 years in prison for strangling his wife to death at their home and burying her body in a nearby forest. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150220/lausanne-man-gets-14-years-for-strangling-wife Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:57:00 +0100 lausanne-man-gets-14-years-for-strangling-wife Foreigners living in Switzerland cannot be asked to pass a Swiss driving test in order to swap their foreign driving licence for a Swiss one, regardless of when they apply, the Federal Court has said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140718/federal-court-no-tests-for-expat-drivers Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:17:00 +0200 federal-court-no-tests-for-expat-drivers A district court has convicted a 22-year-old of murder and attempted murder in the case of two brothers attacked outside a nightclub in Zurich in 2012. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140626/nightclub-killer-sentenced-to-16-years Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:19:00 +0200 nightclub-killer-sentenced-to-16-years A man who had an affair with his under-age step-daughter and went on to marry her will undergo two years of therapy instead of prison, following a trial in Brugg in the canton of Aargau. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140619/man-who-married-step-daughter-avoids-prison Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:50:00 +0200 man-who-married-step-daughter-avoids-prison Switzerland’s top court has ordered the release from detention of a teenage violent offender who sparked controversy over the lavish therapy he received. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140224/supreme-court-orders-release-of-violent-youth Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:28:00 +0100 supreme-court-orders-release-of-violent-youth Five Czech citizens and a Belgian are appearing before the federal criminal court in Bellinzona on Monday charged with money laundering and other crimes. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130513/major-money-laundering-case-opens-in-bellinzona Mon, 13 May 2013 14:51:00 +0200 major-money-laundering-case-opens-in-bellinzona Integration comes before religion, according to the country’s supreme court. It ruled that a 14-year-old Muslim girl could not be excused from swimming lessons because the teacher was male. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130510/court-rules-against-muslim-family-in-swimming-row Fri, 10 May 2013 18:27:00 +0200 court-rules-against-muslim-family-in-swimming-row