Two Police Officers acquitted in Basel

[John in Basel]

Two Police Officers acquitted of Charges in Basel

BASEL – Two police officers of Canton Basel’s Police Department were exonerated by the courts of charges of intimidation, wrongful detention and abuse of authority. The two policemen were present at the police check in 2002 of the Party of Nationally Orientated Swiss (PNOS), which resulted in charges being brought against the police force. These charges were investigated by an attorney Roland Winiger from Olten (another Swiss town to ensure that he did not favour the Basel authorities).
Naturally at the end of the day the two officers were exonerated of the charges but in a case the police have been taught a good lesson because the costs of this case must have run into tens of thousands of Swiss Francs. Next time they will be a bit more restrained if they consider storming a peaceful party conference of the PNOS.


From the Swiss papers:
Freitag 30.04.2004, MEZ 15:12

Strafgericht spricht zwei Basler Polizeioffiziere frei
swissinfo 29. April 2004 15:12

Strafgericht spricht zwei Basler Polizeioffiziere frei

BASEL - Zwei Offiziere der Basler Kantonspolizei sind vom Vorwurf der Nötigung, Freiheitsberaubung und Amtsmissbrauch frei gesprochen worden. Sie waren an der Kontrolle einer Versammlung der Partei national orientierter Schweizer (PNOS) im Juni 2002 beteiligt.

Wegen Strafanzeigen der PNOS standen der damalige Polizeikommandant ad interim und der Einsatzleiter vor dem Basler Strafgericht. Dieses stellte fest, dass die Razzia rechtmässig war und «hochprofessionell duchgeführt wurde», wie das Polizei- und Militärdepartement (PMD) mitteilte.

Swiss Info (http://www.swissinfo.org/sde/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=4903496)

[John in Basel]

Here is a flier report of the incident from 2002

Police Terror in Basel

Is freedom of assembly and the exchange of information forbidden in Switzerland?

Police 'storm' peaceful party conference

Saturday afternoon, 29th. June 2002 restaurant "Drei Könige" in Kleinhüningen, Basel: Flanked by large Swiss national flags over 100 members and guests of the Party of National Orientated Swiss (PNOS) had finished singing the Swiss national anthem and were listening to the opening presentations by members of the executive committee when a menacing procession suddenly gained entry into the peaceful restaurant. Eighty heavily armed police officers wearing helmets and carrying tear-gas throwers filed in and positioned themselves along the walls of the hall. The assembled members stayed calm with no one allowing themselves to be provoked. To be sure some loud booing ensued as the leader of the task force, Oberleutnant Cölestin Frei gave his reasons why he had come with his men; i.e. to take personal details and body search with a photo session for everyone present.

Dictatorship

Using the microphone Bernhard Schaub of the PNOS's national committee made it clear to all present that what was being witnessing before their very eyes was the beginning of dictatorship in Switzerland. The vice president Jonas Gysin called on everyone to be cooperative reminding everyone that individual police officers had not planned this action but were just carrying out orders. This is, of course, correct -- the people responsible for this manoeuvre are not just Cölestin Frei and the public prosecutor, Thomas Homberger, but also Roger Fischer and Beat Voser from the Office of the Police Superintendent as well as Jörg Schild, Member of Basel's Cantonal Government and the various 'behind the scenes' members of the Ruling Elite.

Attempted Intimidation

Then an embarrassing theatrical performance started: All guests including many women and several guests in their eighties were led out individually while all the others stayed seated in the guarded hall and with hands held up against a wall were body searched from top to bottom. Finally, like common criminals everyone was photographed with a number plate on their chest. After one and a half hours the exercise in wasting taxpayers money came to an end and the scary episode was over almost as suddenly as it began – except for the disapproval of the angered guests.

Lousy Excuses

The reason given for the action according to police spokesman Klaus Mannhart was: "We acted in this heavy-handedly manner because we simply don't want these people here in Basel." Where is the legal basis for such an outrageous statement? What sort of lousy interpretation of the law is that? The Department of Justice creates it's own law as required when it wants to criminalize undesired political dissent.

Legal proceedings against the Department of Justice

PNOS does not intend to allow this criminal action to go unanswered. The party will be bringing legal proceedings against these irresponsible justice pirates. We owe it to ourselves and to all decent citizens of this country to do so.

A stop must be made to this terror mindset from the liberal-left. Help us in the struggle to uphold the Swiss Nation.

PNOS National Committee
Postfach 157
CH-4410 Liestal
Switzerland

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

Strange. This is an established party which has seats in government :confused: . I used to frequent this part of Basel where I used to shop at Migros until they opened a new “OBI” store nearby, which is a German globalist “dime store”. Since then I’ve been shopping at the Migros in Aschvil which is easily accessible from France without having to drive through Basel, which is a time consuming, unpleasant experience

[John in Basel]

Strange. This is an established party which has seats in government :confused: . I used to frequent this part of Basel where I used to shop at Migros until they opened a new “OBI” store nearby, which is a German globalist “dime store”. Since then I’ve been shopping at the Migros in Aschvil which is easily accessible from France without having to drive through Basel, which is a time consuming, unpleasant experience

There is some slight confusion here. The PNOS is a young nationalist party without any representation in government. You are possibly thinking of the SVP the Swiss People's Party, which is the equivalent of the Conservative Party in many other countries.

http://www.pnos.ch/de/index.html

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

There is some slight confusion here. The PNOS is a young nationalist party without any representation in government. You are possibly thinking of the SVP the Swiss People's Party, which is the equivalent of the Conservative Party in many other countries.

http://www.pnos.ch/de/index.html
Oops, your right :o . I should have taken the time ti read the entire post.
What the police did there was something you might think only happens in the 3rd- and 2nd Wörld. Very strange and unconstitutional indeed, dude.
I find your comparisson of the SVP with other European so-called “conservative” parties unfair. If any party in France or Germany would adopt the platform of the SVP, they would be labeled extreme right.
What is your opinion about the tighter border controls between Germany and Switzerland? Is this to do with the planned expulsion of rejected asylum seekers? In other words, to keep them from entering Germany? As you know, they aren’t explaining anything to us about the matter except superficially.
Are the French controlling Germans crossing from Switzerland?

[John in Basel]

I find your comparisson of the SVP with other European so-called “conservative” parties unfair. If any party in France or Germany would adopt the platform of the SVP, they would be labeled extreme right.

Let’s put it this way. It is my opinion that the SVP, having gained the reputation of being the most right-wing party, are just playing the race card. By making a lot of demands they will logically win support. In reality the SVP is made up of several factions and only one, the Zurich one originally under Christoph Blocker, that can really be called ‘far’ right. The Berner-Faktion of the SVP are a bunch of liberal luvvies. No doubt immigration policies will be tightened up but it will only REDUCE the flow of bogus and economic asylum seekers and most probably only for a few years. :(
Sort of extinction for whites in 40 years instead of 25 years or whatever it is. When I said ‘conservative’ I suppose I really meant British ‘Tory’ Conservative. What the SVP are now doing looks like a rerun of the trick Maggie Thatcher pulled to gain support but in reality she did very little more that cosmetics and incidentally at the same time clobbered the National Front of those days.


What is your opinion about the tighter border controls between Germany and Switzerland? Is this to do with the planned expulsion of rejected asylum seekers? In other words, to keep them from entering Germany? As you know, they aren’t explaining anything to us about the matter except superficially.
First of all what I get here is little more than superficial information. Maybe more than you but I have learned to be very sceptical when it comes to media news.
In my opinion – and it is notoriously difficult to second guess governments – the difficulties that Germany regularly serves up to Switzerland is more to do with slowly grinding down the resolve of a (relatively) free European nation to remain outside of the EU. The fact that Switzerland can stand alone sort of shows anyone who cares to look than there is no need to be a member of the EU to be successful.
Another recent ongoing ‘difficulty’ is about the airspace over southern Germany which forms the approach to Zurich’s airport. Now all incoming flights must do a dangerous route just south of the Swiss/German border and then do a sudden right turn to get on the approach descent.


Are the French controlling Germans crossing from Switzerland?
Anyone crossing the Swiss/German border is checked on the same terms as far as I can judge. (Well, that excludes southeast Europeans and darkies). In any case crossing is still not difficult – it just takes a bit longer so that queues build up.