Since January of this year, 21 women have been killed in Switzerland. Foreign perpetrators from cultures that despise women are disproportionately represented in this sad record. Many of them were already known to the police for committing violent crimes and making threats.
The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) is now demanding the effective implementation of the initiative to deport criminal foreigners, a tightening of naturalisation procedures and zero tolerance for violent criminals.
Domestic violence is a sad reality also in Switzerland. The Zurich Cantonal Police alone are called out 18 times a day for such acts of violence. In some cases, women die. Since January, 21 women have died in Switzerland, last year there were 20, according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The Federal Office for Gender Equality (FOGE) estimates that 25 people are killed by domestic violence every year. There is also one attempted murder every week.
The statistics also show us that it is mainly a matter of immigrant violence. In most cases, the perpetrators are in fact immigrants. More than half of the homicides committed in 2021 were committed by foreigners, often by non-integrated men from Turkey, the Balkans, Arab or African countries, in short, from countries where women have few or no rights. As the SVP already mentioned in its 2019 position paper “Crime has a name: Mass immigration”, the majority of serious sexual offences are committed by non-integrated immigrants. In many cases, the perpetrators have been known to the police for a long time because of threats and violence.It is astonishing that the red-green left deliberately avoids these connections for ideological reasons. Of all political parties, it is not only absurd but also dangerous that the Socialist Party (SP) in particular, which claims to be a pioneer in the fight for women’s rights, deliberately turns a blind eye to this fact. Instead of speaking openly and calling a spade a spade in order to expel criminal, non-integrated foreigners, the red-green left protects these criminals. It prefers to create more women’s shelters, to speak of “toxic masculinity” and to call all men “suspicious”. Anyone who denounces these real effects of mass immigration is accused of racism.
Instead of effectively protecting women, the SP and the Greens prefer to import even more violence by demanding the admission of tens of thousands of migrants from Afghanistan and Syria. In the federal parliament, the same parties systematically reject all proposals aimed at strengthening measures that would better protect women while punishing perpetrators of violence more harshly and effectively.
The SVP demands that:
- Non-integrated foreigners who are known to the police for domestic violence and threats have their residence permits revoked and their social benefits cancelled.
- naturalisations are only granted with a probationary period; anyone who commits a criminal offence within 5 years of naturalisation or, in the case of young people, up to 5 years after reaching the age of majority, has their Swiss citizenship revoked.
- The initiative on the deportation of criminal foreigners, which was adopted by the people in 2010, is finally to be implemented. If deportation is not possible, violent criminals should be taken into deportation custody. Instead of more women’s shelters, we must create deportation prisons for criminal foreigners.
- There should be zero tolerance for sexual assault and violence against women.
- That marriages where the spouse is under 16 are automatically classified as presumed forced marriages and thus a criminal offence.
- The state no longer spares criminals and perpetrators of violence. In the upcoming harmonisation of the penal framework, the threats of punishment must correspond to reality. Specifically, suspended fines are ineffective, which is why they must be abolished, just like the “remission”.
The SVP parliamentary group will submit several motions on this issue during the winter parliamentary session.
