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Anyone who sits in parliament already receives tons of emails and letters. But in the Corona crisis everything is different here too. The National and the Council of States receive complaints from the affected companies, ranting that Switzerland is accepting too many crown deaths and a large number of emails from crown skeptics.
The postal bombardment increased again, especially in the winter session that ended this Friday. SP National Advisor Jacqueline Badran (59) posted a screenshot of her inbox on Twitter. Your email account has looked like this for weeks. Badran does not hide what he thinks of the writers of the email: “Covidioten”.
Coordinated action
It is not the first time that emails on the issue of Corona flood the inboxes of parliamentarians more than they already have. There were already complaints about this in the summer. Even back then, there was frustration when messages with the same wording came through word for word, hundreds of times. After all, copying a text is quick and easy, and the email addresses of parliamentarians are publicly available.
This time also a lot of text was copied: As the newspapers “CH Media” report, this is a coordinated action: an “Advent calendar” for parliamentarians, so to speak. The call for this comes from a group collecting signatures for a petition calling for the “establishment of an independent extra-parliamentary commission of inquiry”, because the crown measures were taken “without a medical emergency.”
Concerned federal police
As “CH Media” reports, even the federal police are concerned. “The tone has become more violent,” said Florian Näf, spokesman for the Federal Police Office (Fedpol). In parts of the skeptical scene you can see a “growing radicalization”.
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Fedpol is also aware of the campaign by mail. The flood of mail is not a threat in the criminal sense. Therefore, real consequences cannot be ruled out: “Virtual expressions of discontent are breeding grounds for even more insults or actual acts of violence that can endanger the functioning of political institutions,” says Näf. (gbl)
