Hi All,
I have posted few weeks ago a tread about some racist posts http://www.glocals.com/forums/geneva/where-how-in-geneva/Racist-Posts----126105.htm%23msg_126379
I would like to show you and to the Glocals Admins what the Swiss Penal Code says about it and which actions you are able to take.
“Those who publicly incites hatred or discrimination against a person or group of persons because of their racial, ethnic or religious;
Those who publicly propagates an ideology aiming to disparage or denigrate systematically members of a particular race, ethnicity or religion;
Those who, for the same purpose, has organized or encouraged acts of propaganda or takes part;
Those who has publicly, in speech, writing, image, gesture, by assault or otherwise discriminated against or lowered in a way that undermines human dignity a person or group of persons because of their race, their ethnicity or their religion or who, for the same reason, deny, grossly minimize or seek to justify genocide or other crimes against humanity;
Those who having refused to a person or group of persons because of their racial, ethnic or religious, a service intended for public use,
shall be punished with imprisonment of three years or a fine.”
You can find more information on:
http://www.ekr.admin.ch/themen/00042/00054/index.html?lang=fr
The 3 posts below that I mentioned in my original thread
“there is much suffering in the world and a great deal of it is created by extreme moslems”
“the point is the Arabs are sore losers”
“what did the palestinians ever contribute to the world besides voting the Hamas in, sending rockets to Israel and playing the victim constantly ?”
can be sentenced under article 261 bis of the Swiss Penal Code.
In the future if you have faced to this kind of posts, there are 2 alternatives actions:
- Register a discrimination complaint over racist post according to the article 261 bis of the Swiss Penal Code.
- Contact the Swiss Coordination Unit for Cybercrime Control (CYCO) http://www.cybercrime.ch. This service is also responsible for matters of racism on the Internet. It shall, where appropriate, send the case to the criminal prosecution authorities.
And then the authorities will decide how to handle your case…
