Keystone-ATS gives you a first overview of the news, with the primeurs found in the press. Without forgetting the birthdays and the saying of the day!
The strengths of the day
ice hockey: Make way on Tuesday at the National League final in ice hockey. The Lausanne HC welcomes the Zurich Lions at 8:00 p.m. for the first of the seven games. The first team that will win four games will be crowned champion in Switzerland. The Vaudois had been beaten last season in the final by the Zurich at the end of the seven games.
football : In football, the first two quarter -finals return from the Champions League are on the program on Tuesday evening. Barcelona goes to the lawn of Borussia Dortmund with a comfortable advance after her 4-0 victory. Paris-Saint-Germain travels to Birmingham to face Aston Villa, which he beat 3-1 last week.
POPULATION : The Federal Statistics Office (FSA) presents its scenarios on Tuesday of the evolution of the population of Switzerland and the cantons for the period from 2025 to 2055. The latest version of this study dates back to 2020. It predicted in its basic scenario that the Swiss population would reach 10.4 million inhabitants in 2050.
Health : The Citizen Assembly presents Tuesday the six reform proposals that it held at the end of its work. This organ, made up of 100 members drawn, met for five months to discuss this social theme. His final report will be submitted to the Swiss Minister of Health Elisabeth Baume-Schneider.
#METOO: The former king of American cinema Harvey Weinstein, whose fall led to the start of the world wave #MeToo in 2017, will be rejuvenated from Tuesday in New York for sexual assault and rape after the resounding cancellation of his conviction last year. The trial of the former Miramax boss could last up to six weeks before the Manhattan criminal court. Always detained, the 73 -year -old man had been sentenced to sixteen years in prison in 2023 in California for rape and sexual assault on a European actress.
Seen in the press
UKRAINE : 72% of the Swiss support Ukraine in the war opposing him to Russia, reveals Tuesday a Tamedia survey, taken up by the Genève Tribune and 24 hours. There are only 5% to declare their sympathy for Russia, while 22% refuse to choose a camp. women and Romands are slightly more favorable to kyiv. Sympathizers of the UDC are the most prorussian with 12% support, against less than 2% in other parties. UDC supporters are only 43% to support kyiv and 44% refuse to choose a camp. In age groups, with 10% support, 18-35 year olds are the most pro-Putin. Conversely, retirees (81%) are the most pro-Ukrainian. The survey was carried out from March 31 to April 1 to 35,132 people from all over Switzerland. The margin of error is more or less 3.3 percentage points.
United STATES : The Swiss sulks the United States due to US President Donald Trump, the Tages-Anzeiger, Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung and Bund on Tuesday wrote. According to a survey by the Leewas Institute with more than 35,000 people, nearly four out of five Helvetians do not wish to go to the United States during the term of Donald Trump (2025-2029). Entrances to the United States from Switzerland fell by almost 26% in March compared to the same month of the previous year, confirm data from the United States Ministry of Commerce.
Female: The number of feminicides has been generally stable for decades in Switzerland, “with a very slight downward trend”, notes in the freedom and mail of Tuesday the criminologist Nora Markwalder. “Over the long term, there are an average of 14 women per year in Switzerland,” she adds. Thirteen cases of feminicides have already been recorded since the start of the year in Switzerland, against 21 in 2024, recall the newspapers. “If there are additional cases in 2025, they could be attributed to fluctuations that we have regularly observed in the past,” said the criminologist. According to her, based on the definition of the UN, almost all the murders of women are feminicides, because “the exceptions are few”.
SCAM : The number of reports of online scams has multiplied by five in the space of a year in Switzerland, reports Tuesday, citing data from the Federal Cybersecurity Office (OFCS). The 200 monthly case bar was crossed this year, with a peak at 250 for the month of February, against less than 50 per month in 2024. “We observe a significant increase in scams aimed at individuals, with sometimes very high amounts,” said in the newspaper the Netguardian cybersecurity company. “What is particularly worrying is the growing complexity of fraudulent schemes”, with more and more “hybrid scenarios, where different techniques are chained to trap victims on several levels,” she adds.
Birthdays and jubilees
– 35 years ago (1990): Birth of British actress Emma Watson (“Harry Potter”, “Le Monde de Charlie”).
– 40 years ago (1985): The IT company Symbolics records Symbolics.com, the first Domaine.com in the history of the Internet.
– 50 years ago (1975): Death of the Geneva priest and theologian Charles Journet, cardinal of the Catholic Church.
– 65 years ago (1960): Birth of the King of Belgians Philippe.
– 75 years ago (1950): Birth of French actress and director Josiane Balasko (“cursed lawn”, “too beautiful for you”, “Les Bronzés”).
– 75 years ago (1950): Birth of the British clown and humorist Jango Edwards, known in particular for his crazy interventions on the cult show of Canal+ nowhere else, alongside Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia. He died in 2023.
– 80 years ago (1945): British troops release the Nazi concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen.
– 90 years ago (1935): Birth of the French singer Anne Germain, performer of famous television generics as “the island of children” or “Wednesday visitors”. It was also she who doubled Catherine Deneuve’s voice for musical films “Les Demoiselles de Rochefort” and “Skin of donkey”. She died in 2016.
Dicton of the day
“When Saint-Panterne arrives the season, the heat comes for good”.
