>Switzerland’s government has rejected that kind of criticism, stressing that its adoption of EU sanctions marks a historic shift and that it is doing everything possible to hunt down blacklisted assets.
germany will change its gas supplier faster than switzerland changing its financial laws. but they took a huge first step in the right direction. they are learning a new dance, it takes time.
The Swiss regularly brag to the French about their direct democracy which is *”far superior”* because *« It truly represents the will of the Swiss people »* .
Everything I have seen from their behavior leads me to conclude the Swiss are not a good people. At all.
Marc Rich was indicted in America on 60 criminal counts including rackeetering, insider trading, threats, accounting fraud, wire fraud, high treason, and the largest tax evasion case in all U.S. History.
Learning of the indictement, Marc Rich fled to Switzerland to never to return.
The Swiss declared they would *”never give him up”* even if there is a diplomatic crisis with America.
An FBI Special Task force was set up to try to capture him and he was put on the criminals top 10 most wanted list alongside Bin Laden. From Switzerland, Marc Rich opened the corporation Glencore and quickly became a Billionaire.
They often talk about “their humanitarian tradition”, welcoming persecuted people, the Swiss Red Cross, etc..
Here is what I found doing some research:
>Jews remember forced labor camps in Switzerland
>Manfred Alexander was 21 in 1941 when, with his fiancee and her mother, he entered Switzerland from France. There, he says, a new nightmare began.
>The family were immediately separated by the Swiss Border Patrol. Mr. Alexander was put first in a prison, then in a forced labor camp.
>”I was put in prison with murderers,” Mr. Alexander said in a telephone interview today from his home in Kew Gardens, Queens.
>”Then I was sent to camps where they put us in striped uniforms and we worked daybreak to sundown in the fields. A guard beat people. Those who tried to escape, they sent dogs after them and the dogs ate those they caught.”
Rather than giving the money from accounts back, they created a huge crisis :
>Early last month, a senior Swiss diplomat sent a confidential cable addressed to only his closest aides. Instead, it was circulated to the country’s top politicians and set alarm bells ringing.
>According to people who have seen it, the cable led the politicians to believe that American Jewish groups were threatening to orchestrate an array of sanctions if Switzerland did not issue a ”declaration of intent” to set up a $250 million fund to compensate the families of Holocaust victims and survivors.
>Jewish groups, the Swiss politicians concluded from the cable, were poised to organize a boycott of Swiss banks, set up picket lines outside Swiss institutions in the United States, arrange unflattering press coverage and file class action suits if Switzerland did not capitulate by February 1997. It said the Swiss could respond in two ways: be conciliatory or put up hard-nosed resistance.
>The Jewish groups mentioned in the cable adamantly deny making such threats and say the proposal for a fund of several hundred million dollars came from the Swiss.
>But the cable was quickly seized upon by many Swiss politicians and officials, who saw it as evidence of a vast anti-Swiss conspiracy involving Jewish groups, public manipulation, and American financial institutions that stood to benefit.
>The President of Switzerland, who received the cable, gave an interview just a few weeks after it arrived in which he accused Jewish groups of engaging in blackmail.
>He warned, that his compatriots might display ”negative reactions, anti-Semitic reactions.” Referring to the onslaught of criticism, he said that ”sometimes, listening to some people, I wonder whether or not Auschwitz is in Switzerland.”
What kind of country is this ?
Behind paywall
Like someone said, there’s a reason they want to be known for chocolate.
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>Switzerland’s government has rejected that kind of criticism, stressing that its adoption of EU sanctions marks a historic shift and that it is doing everything possible to hunt down blacklisted assets.
germany will change its gas supplier faster than switzerland changing its financial laws. but they took a huge first step in the right direction. they are learning a new dance, it takes time.
The Swiss regularly brag to the French about their direct democracy which is *”far superior”* because *« It truly represents the will of the Swiss people »* .
Everything I have seen from their behavior leads me to conclude the Swiss are not a good people. At all.
Marc Rich was indicted in America on 60 criminal counts including rackeetering, insider trading, threats, accounting fraud, wire fraud, high treason, and the largest tax evasion case in all U.S. History.
Learning of the indictement, Marc Rich fled to Switzerland to never to return.
The Swiss declared they would *”never give him up”* even if there is a diplomatic crisis with America.
An FBI Special Task force was set up to try to capture him and he was put on the criminals top 10 most wanted list alongside Bin Laden. From Switzerland, Marc Rich opened the corporation Glencore and quickly became a Billionaire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencore
The Swiss also announced they will not give up Polanski
https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-government-rejects-polanski-extradition-to-united-states/a-5786084
They often talk about “their humanitarian tradition”, welcoming persecuted people, the Swiss Red Cross, etc..
Here is what I found doing some research:
>Jews remember forced labor camps in Switzerland
>Manfred Alexander was 21 in 1941 when, with his fiancee and her mother, he entered Switzerland from France. There, he says, a new nightmare began.
>The family were immediately separated by the Swiss Border Patrol. Mr. Alexander was put first in a prison, then in a forced labor camp.
>”I was put in prison with murderers,” Mr. Alexander said in a telephone interview today from his home in Kew Gardens, Queens.
>”Then I was sent to camps where they put us in striped uniforms and we worked daybreak to sundown in the fields. A guard beat people. Those who tried to escape, they sent dogs after them and the dogs ate those they caught.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/15/world/jews-remember-forced-labor-camps-in-wartime-swiss-refuge.html
When survivors wanted their money back, the Swiss started shredding all bank archives from world war 2 :
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/011597swiss-banks-nazis.html
Rather than giving the money from accounts back, they created a huge crisis :
>Early last month, a senior Swiss diplomat sent a confidential cable addressed to only his closest aides. Instead, it was circulated to the country’s top politicians and set alarm bells ringing.
>According to people who have seen it, the cable led the politicians to believe that American Jewish groups were threatening to orchestrate an array of sanctions if Switzerland did not issue a ”declaration of intent” to set up a $250 million fund to compensate the families of Holocaust victims and survivors.
>Jewish groups, the Swiss politicians concluded from the cable, were poised to organize a boycott of Swiss banks, set up picket lines outside Swiss institutions in the United States, arrange unflattering press coverage and file class action suits if Switzerland did not capitulate by February 1997. It said the Swiss could respond in two ways: be conciliatory or put up hard-nosed resistance.
>The Jewish groups mentioned in the cable adamantly deny making such threats and say the proposal for a fund of several hundred million dollars came from the Swiss.
>But the cable was quickly seized upon by many Swiss politicians and officials, who saw it as evidence of a vast anti-Swiss conspiracy involving Jewish groups, public manipulation, and American financial institutions that stood to benefit.
>The President of Switzerland, who received the cable, gave an interview just a few weeks after it arrived in which he accused Jewish groups of engaging in blackmail.
>He warned, that his compatriots might display ”negative reactions, anti-Semitic reactions.” Referring to the onslaught of criticism, he said that ”sometimes, listening to some people, I wonder whether or not Auschwitz is in Switzerland.”
What kind of country is this ?
Behind paywall
Like someone said, there’s a reason they want to be known for chocolate.