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Four people killed before the perpetrator shot himself in a domestic incident. [20] 21 December 2015: Rupperswil: Canton of Aargau: 4 0 4: Rupperswil murder case: A man murdered four people with a knife. 9 March 2023: Yverdon-les-Bains: Canton of Vaud: 5 [a] 0 5: Police suspect that a man shot and killed his wife and three daughters before ...
Roger Schutz (12 May 1915 – 16 August 2005), popularly known as Brother Roger (French: Frère Roger), was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother.In 1940 Schutz founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France, serving as its first prior until his murder in 2005. [1]
Hervé Bondembe Mandundu (died November 6, 2016) was a 27-year-old Congolese-born Swiss resident who was shot and killed by Chablais police in Bex, Switzerland. [1] The police allege that Mandundu rushed towards the five officers with a kitchen knife.
Canton of Vaud: 4 [a] 0 4: A man shot and killed three family members with a revolver before killing himself. [8] 6 February 1922: Lumino: Canton of Ticino: 6 [a] 8 14: A man killed five people and wounded eight others in a shooting spree. The gunman killed himself. [9] [10] 23 March 1927: Zürich: Canton of Zürich: 5 [a] 1 6
Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History (2000) excerpt and text search; Dawson, William Harbutt. Social Switzerland: Studies of Present-day Social Movements and Legislation (1897) 302 pp; with focus on social and economic history, poverty, labour online; Fahrni, Dieter. An Outline History of ...
Along with the canton of Berne, Vaud is one of the two cantons whose territory extends from the Jura to the Alps, through the three distinct geographic regions of Switzerland. The areas in the south east are mountainous, situated on the north side of the Bernese Alps. This region is commonly named the Vaud Alps (French: Alpes Vaudoises).
Tour des sorciers Sion Champion des dames Vaudoises Estrapade instrument de torture Acte notarié de l'archevêché cathédral de Sion 02. The Valais witch trials consisted of a witch-hunt and a series of witch trials which took place in the Valais (the House of Savoy and the prince-bishopric of Sion), today part of Switzerland, beginning in 1428.
An incident on 25 January, in which two French hussars were killed by Swiss soldiers in Thierrens, was cited as a pretext. [2] [7] They occupied Vaud without resistance and were cheered on by the population, as Bernese troops withdrew to the area of Murten and Fribourg. [1]