GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The tiny island nation of the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, is in crisis, with President Mahomed Nasheed resigning in the face of a police mutiny. The island is famous for its luxury hotels and resorts, but ABC news in Australia reports that the crisis is largely “invisible” to most visitors, who are whisked away from the airport to holiday destinations where alcohol and bikinis are the norm. The island is otherwise an Islamic state, which strictly observes no alcohol laws and dress codes. Nasheed came to power in 2008 pledging reform, but ran into trouble with the police when he had a long-serving judge arrested for his ties to the president’s predecessor.
Missing mother and daughter
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Police in two cantons have issued missing persons reports Wednesday 1 February, and they are asking the public for help finding them.
Canton Vaud police say 35-year-old Mizué Bachelard and her 7-year-old daughter Hanaé Noémi disappeared Tuesday evening 31 January from their home in Chexbres.
The mother is “psychologically fragile” say police.
They put out an alert after the mother bought petrol in Bursins, on the A1 autoroute, for her blue Nissan Micra car, Vaud license plates VD 551’987 at 19:40.
She then took money out of a bank cash machine in Versoix and at 09:00 this morning out of a machine in Paris.
Mizué Bachelard is 160cm tall, thin and wispy, with chestnut hair (she often wears it tied with a band) and brown eyes.
She was last seen wearing a pink pullover, checkered pants or pyjama-style bottoms, and a brown-beige coat.
Her daughter is 120cm tall, thin, with chestnut hair and light blue eyes.
She was wearing a red and white striped pullover, dark pants and a blue jacket with a hood.
Police believe the pair may be in Paris.
They ask anyone with information to phone +41 21 644 4444.
Valais youth missing from home since 26 January
Bastien Monnet, 18 years old, has not been seen since the night of 26 January in St Maurice.
Sebastien Monnet, missing from St Maurice
He is 187 cm tall, trim build, dark brown hair cut very short, brown eyes. He was last seen wearing military pants with US Army on them and very large side pockets, a black jacket with hood covered in logos, a black winter jacket with small red and gray motifs and black cloth trainers.
Police in canton Valais are asking anyone with information to contact them at +41 27 326 5656.
Le Nouvelliste says man has been under medical care for psychiatric problems
SION, SWITZERLAND – A Sion judge was attacked and suffered multiple injuries Saturday night 28 January in the city centre. Le Nouvelliste reported Monday morning that a man who has been under medical treatment and who suffers severe psychiatric problems has been arrested and taken to a special detention centre. Police confirmed at 11:00 Monday that a 29-year-old Swiss German who lives in Valais sought medical treatment Sunday morning for injuries he suffered Saturday night. He told medical staff that he was the man who attacked the judge, and he then turned himself into police.
The attack appeared in some way linked to the “Luca” case that has received heavy media attention, particularly in Valais, because the attacker called out “Luca, Luca” and was reported by the judge to say he would pay the magistrate back in kind.
Luca Mongelli is a youth who was badly injured, the victim of a bizarre and vicious attack in Veysonnaz in 2002. The case received heavy media attention at the time and, recently made it back into the news. The boy, age 7 at the time, was found injured and naked, in the snow, in Veysonnaz, after taking the family dog, Rocky, for a walk with Luca’s younger brother Marco. Luca was able to say immediately after the attack that humans had done this to him, but legal and medical analyses at the time showed Rocky to be the attacker, and a drawing done by the very young Marco, as well as his words at the time, pointed to the 30 kg 7-month-old dog. The case was suspended in 2004 and the family has called publicly for further investigation. Luca today is tetraplegic as a result of his injuries.
The Valais attorney general held a press conference on the affair 26 January (details below).
Saturday’s attack was violent and wrongly evoked the Luca case
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 32-year-old man shot and killed the father of his ex-girlfriend in Vernier Saturday morning at 10:30, Geneva police say. The man arrived to pick up his daughter, born in 2009, for a weekend visit but a dispute broke out between the man, his ex and her parents, who were visiting. The younger man, a Geneva resident, then shot the older man. Police arrested the gunman in front of the apartment building and despite emergency services arriving quickly on the scene, the victim died there.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Yet another armed robbery attempt, the sixth in seven days in canton Vaud, took place Friday night at 18:50 at the Pam grocery store on the rue des Moulins in Yverdon-les-Bains. The masked thief was frightened off without getting anything after the cashier screamed repeatedly and loudly when he pointed a black gun at her and demanded the contents of the cash register.
A manhunt with several police patrols has not turned up the man, who is described by Vaud police as 170cm tall, thin, wearing dark clothes and knitted dark cagoule (mask) with three holes.
Police ask that anyone with information phone them at +41 21 644 4444.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A man with a gun held up two people in their 40s as they were closing their business Thursday evening 26 January at 18:30 on the rue de Margencel in Aigle. They gave him an undisclosed sum of money when they were threatened at gunpoint. He then fled and although police were alerted and immediately set up a manhunt, the man has not been found.
His description: he spoke French with an accent “from the East”; 170-175cm tall, thin, dressed in a white shirt with a hood and dark pants; tanned skin.
This is the fifth armed robbery in canton Vaud in one week, with the suspects on the loose in four cases. Police in Lausanne Thursday nabbed thieves who had broken into a Place ST Francois jewelry store at 12:30. A call from outside the store alerted police who arrived quickly and were able to force to the ground and handcuff “several persons” trying to flee. One client inside the shop was slightly injured by a knife.
Bolder thieves: rush hour main street robbery in Rolle
Rolle, main street supermarket robbery Wednesday
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Armed robbers in the Lake Geneva region are getting bolder, with a supermarket hold-up on the main street of Rolle at 19:00 Wednesday night the latest example.
Two masked men broke into the Grand-rue store (police do not mention the Coop at that address specifically) at 19:00, after closing hours and “violently” threatened two of the four employees at gunpoint before making off with an undisclosed sum of money. The two, ages 26 and 30, were in shock but otherwise unharmed, say police.
Two other employees were not directly involved and there were no customers in the store at the time.
The thieves fled “in an unknown direction” and have not been found, despite a significant police search. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at +41 21 644 4444.
Description: 180-190cm tall for the first, both men of average build, wearing dark clothes, with one speaking French with a North African accent.
Valais thieves nabbed
Two thieves, ages 62 and 68, who live in France, were caught in the act of breaking and entering Monday 23 January at 23:00 in Evionnaz, canton Valais. Police were phoned after someone noticed suspicious lights on in an area business, on the Route du Simplon. The building was quickly surrounded and police caught one man attempting to leave the premises and soon found a second man parked at the train station. Stolen goods from three local businesses were found: money, cameras and cell phones.
The two have police records in France, Valais police note.
Vaud, 2 other armed robberies this week: hairdresser’s shop, bank machine client
Earlier this week Vaud police reported two holdups, one Wednesday in Payerne, where a hairdresser was robbed by a man with a knife just as she was closing, and the other a woman in Gland who had just taken money from a bank machine near the post office at midday.
The 44-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint in Gland at 12:30 Saturday. His description: 20-25-year-old man, European in appearance, 175-180cm tall and thin, dressed in a black sweatshirt with hood, black scarf and gloves, black pistol. He fled in the direction of the train station and has not yet been found.
The Payerne hold-up was also carried out by a thin young man, 175cm in height, wearing dark clothes, speaking French with an accent that could not be identified. He fled the scene and despite a search with dogs and several police patrols, he has not yet been found.
Geneva police arrest 3 on several charges after Sunday night high-speed chase
Police in Geneva have three men, ages 19-23, under arrest following a high-speed chase late Sunday. All three reside in Geneva but are Kosovar, Serbian and Macedonian. The stolen car they were traveling in was spotted by police at the intersection of rue Lect and the routes du Nant-d’Avril and Satigny at 22:00. The driver of the car, instead of stopping when the patrol car put on its flashing lights, took off and led police on a high-speed chase. The car was finally stopped in Meyrin and the men taken into custody, where they admitted to a series of local crimes:
- the car was stolen 14 January when they were stopped by a police officer while they were stealing copper from a Lignon construction site; they escaped in the car, which the police officer managed to photograph, after one of them showed the office a Swiss passport, which turned out to be stolen
- the person whose passport was stolen reported it to Geneva police 16 January, showing a complaint filed earlier in Vaud: his house in canton Vaud had been broken into 3 January and he had filed a complaint with police there for the stolen passport and jewels
- the stolen car was reported by Vaud police in connection with unpaid petrol at a station in Yverdon 20 January
- two of the three held up a woman earlier Sunday evening, at a Vernier car wash, where one said he was a policeman and demanded her wallet; they then fled with the wallet, including her identity papers, which police found when they stopped the men. When they phoned the woman she said she had not yet had a chance to report the theft to police
- the man who had posed as a police officer admitted it and said that he had been driving the stolen car daily, without a license, and that on his own he had robbed a number of villas in Lausanne, Morges, Nyon and Fribourg.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in Geneva have arrested a 78-year-old man in the Old Town of the city after he shot and wounded a young man at 04:30 Wednesday 25 January. The 28-year-old victim was hospitalized after being hit in the stomach by a bullet. The shooting occurred after a dispute over noise near a discotheque, with the elderly man shooting from the window of his apartment near Place des Trois-Perdrix.
Drunk driver left scene of Montreux-Vevey accident; 78-year-old woman killed
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 78-year-old woman died in hospital Saturday night 21 January shortly after an accident at 22:00 on the A9 autoroute between Vevey and Montreux, in the direction of Vileneuve. The lake side of the road was closed to traffic until 07:15 Sunday for the investigation.
The driver of the second car noticed the car ahead of him too late and despite braking hard he rear-ended the car violently, say canton Vaud police. The two cars ended up crosswise on the highway.
The victim, who lived in north Vaud, was driving a gray Toyota wagon, and police are looking for witnesses or anyone with information, in particular drivers who may have passed her car. She was taken to the Chuv university hospitals, where she died.
The man who crashed into her car is 26 years old, Portuguese and his driver’s license was already suspended. He fled the scene of the accident but turned himself in later. His alcohol level was measured at 1.08.
Anyone with information is asked to go to the nearest police station or to phone +41 21 644 4444.
BERN, SWITZERLAND – A few dozen anti-World Economic Forum protesters, a small crowd estimated by one news agency at 100 persons, were stopped by police from four cantons Saturday 21 January in Bern. The group, which did not have a police permit, was protesting against capitalism and the forum, which starts 24 January in Davos, canton Graubuenden. They were detained while police checked their IDs.
The large police turnout was organized after calls for violence went out, according to one police official quoted by Swiss news agency ats.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Interpol‘s new red notices and “diffusions”, issued for criminals wanted internationally, grew dramatically in 2011 to 26,000, compared to 16,000 in 2010, bringing the total number of current “wanted” criminals in the system to some 75,000.
Ria Novosti, Russia’s state news service, quotes Interpol head Ronald Noble as saying that the agency, which works with police in most countries, has become much more public in its work, and today about half of the notices are published, compared to just 5 percent in 2000.
Red notices call for the person’s immediate detention for subsequent extradition. A diffusion is an informal arrest warrant, posted on Interpol’s system, to which police worldwide have access.
Gland child rape suspect, police sketch
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Canton Vaud police have dropped their extradition request for a French man held by police in Annemasse, over the border from Geneva, on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old in Gland 14 April 2011.
French police arrested the man 30 November, and he is still being held by them, but further investigations in Switzerland have failed to back up initial suspicions he could be the perpetrator of the sexual assault.
The man who accosted the girl inside her apartment building is still being sought by Vaud police, who say that a number of leads are being pursued actively.
The police drawing has been updated, but 1 December police said it is possible he has shaved his beard and made other changes to his appearance.
The man was European in look, with light-coloured eyes, white-blond hair and spoke French, possibly with a slight, indistinguishable accent. He was wearing wireframed glasses. Height 170-180cm, weight average although with a slight belly.
He was seen driving away from the scene of the crime in a turquoise (green or blue) car with Geneva plates.
A week later they issued samples of the colour of his car. These can be viewed on the web page devoted to the crime, which is a Vaud police priority case, along with that of missing six-year-old twins Alessia and Livia.
The public has responded strongly to the police request for help, the cantonal office says. Anyone with information is asked to contact the nearest police station or phone +41 21 644 4444.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Canton Vaud police are seeking the driver of a dark VW Golf following an accident at 09:00 Monday morning 9 January on the A1 autoroute between Rolle and Gland, in the direction of Geneva. A metallic gray Skoda was in the left lane, just before the La Côte layby, passing a truck, when the driver was surprised by the Golf, which suddenly moved towards the left lane. The two cars scraped their sides, but continued to the Gland exit, where the VW Golf driver continued without stopping or reporting the accident to police.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact them by phone at +41 21 644 4444 or to go to the nearest police station.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 14-year-old is in serious condition, but his life is not in danger, following an accident at the train station in Gland, canton Vaud, Thursday evening 22 December. Vaud police say that a goods train, going 100 kph, pulled the youth was pulled onto the tracks from the platform about 19:00. He and a group of friends, who were meeting up at the station, were standing on the platform and talking, according to local media.
Vaud police have not confirmed the details but say that the youth and one other friend, also 14, were both injured. The second boy sustained only light injuries and was treated and released from the Nyon hospital.
photo, Jared Bloch
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – International organization employees are being alerted that traffic could be a problem in the area around the United Nations Palais and the World Trade Organization Thursday to Saturday, when the WTO holds a Ministerial meeting at the CICG, the Geneva conference centre.
The area around the centre will be cordoned off and access to the Parking des Nations will be limited.
Staff at UN agencies are being asked to use public transport.
Officially, there are no advisories about possible disturbances, but agencies have been alerted that the police presence will be heavy and flyers are circulating and media are received messages about possible meetings 15 December by a group calling itself “Occupy OMC” at the intersection of Avenue de France and Rue de Varembé and at 20:00 at the Rue des Savoises. Another demonstration is being announced for 17 December in the same area.
Take precautions, especially around the holidays, with home break-ins on the rise
GENEVA / LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The number of dusk break-ins around Lausanne and along the La Côte stretch more than doubled from 1 October to 12 December, compared to 2010, say Vaud police, pointing in particular to organized groups of North African and Balkans origins who have been operating in the area.
Geneva police also cite a steady increase in recent years in the number of break-ins but also simple burglaries and last week they began distributing reminders to all homeowners in the canton of precautions to observe.
There were 530 home break-ins in Vaud, compared to 225 a year earlier, during the same period. The increase for the first three months of 2011 compared to 2010 was only 10 percent, say police.
Take precautions: checklist
The number of home burglaries rises every winter when the nights are longer but given this year’s sharp increase the police are urging people to remember to take preventive measures, particularly with the holidays coming.
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The news comes as something of an anti-climax after 8 years in the making: the two Tinner brothers and their 74-year-old father are being charged with breaking Swiss arms export laws. They were part of an operation run by Pakistani Abdul Qadeer Khan, who supplied nuclear parts and secrets to a network that included Libya. Libya’s nuclear plans were revealed when the Tinner case came to light in 2003, and, largely as a result, Libya was forced to abandon its programme.
The family of engineers has agreed to a deal, according to the Swiss public prosecutor’s office, whereby they will serve a maximum of five years, but details of the arrangements will remain secret.
One of the open questions linked to the case is whether the family cooperated with the CIA.
Background, GenevaLunch, “The political tug of war over the Tinner’s nuclear plans drags on”, 2009
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s anti-corruption laws are good, but they should be strengthened, the government has been told by The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption, Greco. Two areas that need legal reinforcement are laws covering bribery of officials, particularly of foreign governments, and the Swiss political contributions system.
Swiss political parties are not obliged to report the sources of their contributions and donors are not obliged to publicly state the amounts they give to parties, or even announce their donations.
Greco also noted in a report released 2 December that “the number of convictions is low in relation to the number of investigations opened, particularly as regards bribery in the private sector and bribery of foreign public officials, despite Switzerland’s important role in the international economy.”
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Canton Valais police raided the Visp asylum centre Monday and found 156 grams of cocaine, several hundred grams of marijuana, a fake CHF200 bill and CHF1,500 in cash.
Five people were arrested; a 20-year-old Gambian for drug abuse, a 22year-old from Equatorial Guinea for being in Switzerland illegally, two Nigerians ages 21 and 36 for drug abuse and a fifth person whose nationality was not made public, but who was sent to France for being in Switzerland illegally.
Three individuals who are being housed at other Swiss asylum centres have been banned from the Visp centre.
Monday’s raid, which is designed to limit drugs in canton Valais, comes just as the ODEA (Observatoire romand du droit d’asile et des étrangers) publishes a report on Switzerland’s immigration and asylum policy, suggesting the country may be crossing the line into illegality in its efforts to reduce illegal immigrants.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - A 48-year-old German climber died after falling 20 metres into a crevasse while climbing the Allelinhorn near Saas Fee. He and his guide, also German, had left the Mittelallelin lift station and skied across the Feeglatscher.
At about 3,700 metres the climber lost a pole when they were on a very steep bit. The guide told him not to move while he fetched it, because just a few metres further there was a crevasse that runs the length of the glacier. He unroped himself and took off his skis and backpack. When he returned, his client, who had moved from the spot, had fallen into the glacier.
The rescue team that was called was too late and could only declare the man dead at the scene of the accident, say canton Valais police.
SION, SWITZERLAND – A massive manhunt is on for two masked men who tried to first rob one bank in canton Valais, then succeeded in robbing a second minutes later. The first attempt occurred in Réchy at 16:40, when a man robbed, at gunpoint a client of the Banque Cantonale du Valais, without getting the bank’s cash. He then fled in a dark-coloured Mercedes station wagon (Fr: break) with an accompllice.
The man was dressed in black, 175cm and normal weight.
Two hours later, at 18:10, two men waited for an employee of the same bank, Banque Cantonale du Valais, to leave the secured area of the bank’s branch in Savièse, then forced the employee at gunpoint to give them the contents of the safe. They fled with what police describe as a “substantial” amount of cash.
Police are asking anyone with information, in particular about the movements of a blue Honda Transalp with Valais plates, to phone them at +41 27 606 5656.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A major manhunt is on for the person who walked into a McDonald’s in Biel/Bienne and opened fire shortly after 08:00 Monday morning 28 November. Two employees were injured, one of them critically. Police say it is not yet clear if robbery was involved or if any money was taken. A third employee was near the restaurant but was uninjured.
The man who escaped is 160-165cm tall and heavyset. He was masked at the time of the shooting and was dressed in a black cap, beige jacket, jeans and dark shoes.
Bern police are asking witnesses or anyone with information to phone the cantonal police at +41 32 344 5111.
The fast-food restaurant and several shops in the area were closed for much of the day.
LAUSANNE / SION, SWITZERLAND – The family of Ramiz Seljmanovic, age 64, has reported him missing from a psychiatric hospital in Monthey, and police are asking the public to help find him.
Description: 170cm, thin, green eyes, gray hair, clothing: tends to make mistakes in dressing.
He disappeared 22 November from the Malévoz psychiatric hospital in Monthey, about 22:10. Anyone with information is asked to call the police at +41 27 326 5656.
Agrandir le plan
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 25-year-old woman was found dead in her car at 07:30 Saturday 26 November, in a field between Le Lieux and Le Sentier, next to the cantonal road in the hamlet of Hameau de Combe Noir on the northwest side of Lac du Joux. Her car had rolled several times after she apparently swerved hard and went off the highway. The woman, who was Swiss, was driving a car with French plates.
The highway was closed Saturday for the investigation; police are still seeking to learn why she abruptly swerved.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 43-year-old Valais man died Sunday afternoon while working at a chemical plant belonging to Syngenta in Monthey, canton Valais. He and another worker were trying to recover a tool that had fallen into an emptied vat. When they failed to reach it he went into the vat, but without first putting on a protective mask. He lost consciousness and despite the quick arrival of a rescue team, he died at the site of the accident.
Mallet, one of the two engines stolen, probably by a van with a forklift, from Le Bouveret's Swiss Vapeur Parc
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two train engines from Le Bouveret’s miniature train park at the eastern tip of Lake Geneva were stolen sometime between 5 and 16 November, after the park closed for the season 1 November. The theft was discovered only Thursday, the 17th, by a gardener at Swiss Vapeur Parc who noticed that a door appeared to have been forced open.
He called police who found that three doors had been forced and two engines were missing.
The locomotives weigh at least 800kg each. The locomotives at the park have track gauges of 5” or 7 1/4″.
The theft is creating a stir not just because the size of the train engines would make it difficult for someone to steal them, but because they are rare and well known in the world of small trains, and therefore not something that could easily be publicly displayed or used elsewhere.
The value of the trains is hard to calculate, but thousands of hours were put in by volunteers to build them, according to the park.
Canton Valais police are asking anyone with information to contact them at +41 24 486 6000.
BVB, hand-crafted by modelmaker Claude Gachnang
With winter coming on, maintenance work is carried out on the autoroutes, often at night: drivers need to be on the alert for lower speeds, reduced lanes
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 24-year old construction worker from Basel was killed Wednesday night on the A9 autoroute near the Blécherette exit in the direction of Geneva, shortly before 22:00, when a drunk driver hit him and narrowly missed a second worker. The driver, a 27-year-old Frenchman, is being held by canton Vaud police.
The autoroute on the uphill side, direction Geneva, was closed between Blécherette and Villars-St-Croix from 22:10 to 05:00 Thursday for the investigation.
The workers were in a central lane closed to traffic, marked with cones and flashing lane closed signs, while they carried out maintenance on winter salt distributors. Only the right lane was open, with the speed limited to 80kph. The driver joined the autoroute at Blécherette and immediately attempted to overtake another vehicle, in the closed lane. He hit a police cone and then the workers; one was thrown a dozen metres while the other narrowly escaped, but with bruises, say police.
The driver’s alcohol level was 1.9, nearly four times the legal limit, which is 0.5 per thousand in Switzerland.
The construction crews were provided with psychological counseling during the night.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Zurich’s Occupy Switzerland protesters left their weeks-long Lindenhof home Tuesday morning 15 November, with some 30 of them taken to a police station before being released. They were held briefly by police for refusing to leave, but the cleanup action by police otherwise occurred without any problems, peacefully, say city authorities.
The protesters have now moved to the City Church at Stauffacher, which has already been welcoming them during the day. They will stay at the church until 5 January, report local media.
Protesters who have camped out at Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park in New York were removed by police Tuesday morning. Tuesday evening Swiss time a judge backed the move and the city’s right to ban the protesters from the area.
Ed. note: Herbi Ditl on flickr has an album of shots from the Occupy movement in Zurich, some of which have appeared on GenevaLunch.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Vaud Police are asking for help in finding the driver of a dark blue car that hit a 10-year-old girl in Epalinges Wednesday 9 November at noon.
The girl was walking along the chemin des Tuileries at 12:00 when she stepped into the crosswalk at Petit-Vennes. She was 1.5 metres into the striped crosswalk when the car struck her, knocking her down. The car was heading on chemin des Croisettes in the direction of the chemin des Ormeaux. The driver failed to stop after the accident.
The girl, who was hit in the right arm, took refuge on the sidewalk. Her parents took her to the hospital early in the afternoon and only later contacted police. The child is suffering from a broken wrist, broken tooth, and bruising to her right knee and face.
Pollice are asking anyone with information to call them at +41 21 644 4444 or to contact the nearest police station.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 23-year-old Swiss man is under arrest after shooting to death his 21-year-old girlfriend late Friday in the apartment they shared in St Leonard, near Sion in canton Valais. The two had argued, say Valais police, when the youth pulled the gun, around 23:15. Further details are not yet available.
The number of domestic homicides has fallen, from about 50 a year in 2000 to 2004, to 25 and 26 in 2009 and 2010. Last year 19 women were among the 26 victims. About 65 percent of the deaths occur among couples who are currently in a relationship. Historically, 9 out of 10 victims are women, according to Swiss federal statistics.
