Yesterday, in the run-up to the peace summit at the Bürgenstock resort in Switzerland this weekend, Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukranian Parliament, visited the Federal Palace in Bern, the seat of the Swiss government and parliament. With the main stairway blocked because of heightened security for Stefanchuk's visit, Thomas Aeschi of the far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) refused to take an elevator upstairs and got into a scuffle with the police. Aeschi's SVP colleague Michael Graber later said on Swiss television that he completely disagreed with the police's actions. As usual, members of a far-right party insist on law and order until it applies to them. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 13 June 2024)
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