‘Kill Erdogan’ banner case in Switzerland at the Supreme Court

Talking to the Swiss newspaper Blick anonymously, the spokesperson of the Bern Chief Public Prosecutor’s Workplace introduced that the determination of acquittal of the 4 defendants in the case earlier than the Bern District Court was appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeals.
There was no data on when the attraction course of would start.
On March 9, the decide gave a verdict of acquittal in the case in opposition to the 4 defendants, which began on January 18.

They “acquitted” 4 defendants

Regardless of the prosecution’s request for “a day by day positive of 32 to 40 p.c, partly conditional and partly unconditional” for the 4 defendants, the decide acquitted the 4 defendants.

The phrase “kill” would not simply imply to kill.

In its acquittal determination, the courtroom additionally cited that the English phrase “kill” on the banner doesn’t simply imply “to kill”.
The Swiss prosecutor acknowledged that he has not but decided to attraction the determination.

Banner focusing on Erdogan in Switzerland

In the “No” rally held in Parliament Sq. in entrance of the Federal Parliament constructing in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, on March 25, 2017, the picture of Erdogan with a gun pointed at his head and the textual content “Kill Erdogan” on the black background banner. The phrase “with their very own weapons” appeared.

The Turkish Ministry of Overseas Affairs had summoned the Deputy Ambassador of Switzerland to Ankara and conveyed Turkey’s response on the problem.

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Workplace additionally launched an investigation in opposition to the suspect or suspects who opened the banner.

In March 2021, the Bern Prosecutor’s Workplace assigned a penalty to the 4 defendants, whom it decided accountable, for the crime of “public incitement to committing crimes and violence” with a prison decree.

It was determined to carry a listening to upon the objection of the suspects, who ready the poster of the crime and had been offered as “left-wing activists” in the Swiss press.