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Police employee ‘secretly filmed women in shower’

A civilian police employee in the town of Wasen, west-central Switzerland, has been accused of installing secret cameras in the changing room and showers of a gym.

Published: 23 December 2013 13:15 CET
Police employee 'secretly filmed women in shower'

The Turnverein Wasen gym in the canton of Bern, in the Emmental region of Switzerland, has now convened an emergency committee to examine the claims.

According to reports in the Swiss media, volley ball instructors were unwittingly filmed as they stripped for showers. Police have now confirmed that this took place.

News of the secret cameras, which was revealed by local radio station Neo1 and the Berner Zeitung newspaper, has sparked uproar in the small town, 20 Minutes reported.

According to the town's prosecutor, the accused – who is an employee of the cantonal police force – faces charges of violating the privacy and intimacy of his victims.

The gym’s president Kurt Aeschlimann said that he was “deeply shocked and saddened” by the incident.

“On behalf of the company, we regret the incident very much and are now looking at how we deal with it,” Aeschlimann told the Suedostschweiz news website. 

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Swiss probing 11-year-old over Islamist posts: media

Swiss police are investigating an 11-year-old boy believed to have been radicalised by Islamic extremists -- the youngest person ever to be involved in such a case in Switzerland, media reported Friday.

Published: 7 September 2024 08:35 CEST
Swiss probing 11-year-old over Islamist posts: media

Swiss broadcasters RTS and SRF reported that police in the southern Swiss canton of Wallis had questioned the boy in June.

He was questioned in connection with “racist and discriminatory content” posted on social media, they said, citing the cantonal juvenile court.

The child reportedly admitted to having had contact with people involved in extremist movements abroad.

The court had not identified the extremist movements in question, but RTS and SRF said they had obtained information indicating they were Islamist and Jihadist groups.

Prior to this case, Islamist extremist cases on record in Switzerland have never involved anyone younger than 14, the broadcasters reported.

Wallis authorities have reportedly opened a juvenile case against the child, whose nationality was not divulged.

The juvenile court had stressed that the level of radicalisation had yet to be established and that the boy enjoyed the presumption of innocence.

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