vendredi 7 septembre 2007

La Suisse au coeur des ténèbres


Le Tabloïd anglais The Independent (le dernier né des quotidiens du Royaume Uni avec un tirage de 250.000) fait de sa une un portrait sinistre de la Suisse, notre pays y est décrit comme le havre européen de la nouvelle extrême droite. Le journal n'hésite pas à comparer les projets d'expulsion des étrangers avec les lois nazies.
"Switzerland is known as a haven of peace and neutrality. But today it is home to a new extremism that has alarmed the United Nations"
Lire l'article de The Independent
Extraits:
...The poster is, according to the United Nations, the sinister symbol of the rise of a new racism and xenophobia in the heart of one of the world's oldest independent democracies...
...But far more dramatically, it has announced its intention to lay before parliament a law allowing the entire family of a criminal under the age of 18 to be deported as soon as sentence is passed.

It will be the first such law in Europe since the Nazi practice of Sippenhaft – kin liability – whereby relatives of criminals were held responsible for their crimes and punished equally...
(lisez l'article de Wikipedia sur ces lois nazies, ) Ce genre de lois a aussi été mis en oeuvre dans l'URSS stalinienne, en Corée du Nord et durant la révolution culturelle en Chine...
...Switzerland has the toughest naturalisation rules in Europe. To apply, you must live in the country legally for at least 12 years, pay taxes, and have no criminal record. The application can still be turned down by your local commune which meets to ask "Can you speak German? Do you work? Are you integrated with Swiss people?...

Lire aussi l'article du Blick sur ce sujet
et celui du Temps paru un jour après ce post
Il y a une semaine le quotidien de référence de Londres, le Guardian avait lui aussi publié un article sur la campagne raciste de l'UDC
Extrait:
Switzerland's biggest political party has come under fire for racist and xenophobic campaigning after its posters featured black sheep and its proposals to deport immigrants were likened by anti-racism campaigners to Nazi practices.
Quelques jours plus tôt le Guardian s'alarmait des projets de lois de déportation des étrangers
Switzerland's largest political party was today accused of promoting an oppressive deportation scheme that allegedly mirrors a law operated by Nazi Germany.
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