Daily attacks on trains and stations: the CFF takes action

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The CFF wants to fight against attacks targeting its staff. (illustrative image)

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Today’s highlights

UNFAIR MANAGEMENT: The appeal trial of German businessman Florian Homm opens on Monday before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. At first instance, the former fund manager was sentenced to 36 months in prison, 18 of which were suspended, for aggravated unfair management and forgery in repeated securities. Three other defendants are due to appear before the Bellinzona court.

RAIL TRANSPORT: The CFF wants to fight against attacks targeting its staff. In collaboration with social partners, they are launching a national campaign on Monday for more respect and safety on trains and stations. Every day, verbal or physical attacks are committed against CFF employees, deplores the former federal agency.

LITERATURE: The Goncourt Prize is awarded Monday at midday at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, as is tradition. The final of the most prestigious French-speaking literary prize is widely seen as a face to face between Kamel Daoud and Gaël Faye, two authors exploring the recent wounds of Algeria and Rwanda. Unless Sandrine Collette or Hélène Gaudy creates a surprise. Kamel Daoud and Gaël Faye are also among the five finalists for the Renaudot prize, which is also awarded on Monday. They are opposed to Elisabeth Barillé, Antoine Choplin and Olivier Norek.

France: Four years after the assassination in France of history and geography professor Samuel Paty by a young radical Islamist, the Paris Special Assize Court will judge from Monday seven men and a woman involved in the campaign of hatred and intimidation that preceded the murder. The assassin, a young 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, will be conspicuously absent from the trial: he was killed by the police shortly after his act.

TODAY IS…: Today is the start of World Space Week. It aims to inspire students and contribute to public awareness of space activities, while encouraging international cooperation in this field. All information on the UN website.

Seen in the press

LOCATIONS: The policies implemented by Swiss cities to regulate rentals on the Airbnb platform are ineffective, the Basler Zeitung, the Berner Zeitung, the Bund and the Tages-Anzeiger reported on Monday, citing an analysis by the consulting company AirDNA.

Whether it’s the 90-day upper limit for rentals, the registration requirement, the moratorium on new second homes or the ban on short-term rentals in residential areas, all of this It was of no use. Nowhere have rentals decreased significantly, notes the analysis. Experts point out in the newspapers the limited resources to carry out controls in Switzerland.

CLIMATE: The demand for sustainable investments is stalling in Switzerland, reveals a study by the University of Lucerne, relayed on Monday by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. From 2018 to 2023, sustainable funds, such as Green Stars, Green New Deal or Green Planet, managed to attract 550 billion francs. The inflow of new money only amounted to 23 billion last year.

Sustainability indices have underperformed the overall market, according to study author Brian Mattman. Interest has particularly waned in thematic funds focused on the environment, climate or energy, he adds.

SEXUAL ABUSE: Despite the classification by the Valais public prosecutor of all cases of abuse perpetrated within the Catholic Church, the abbey of Saint-Maurice (VS) continues “its reform”, assures Monday in 24 Hours its apostolic administrator Jean-Michel Girard. According to him, there will still be many steps to get to the bottom of this. “We cannot yet turn the page on abuses in the Catholic Church,” he adds.

The canon continues: “Justice was limited to the cases reported or denounced, but I think that other potential victims deserve a global approach.”

RELIGION: The Petit-Saconnex (GE) mosque and its school will ultimately not be run by a Swiss institution, indicates in Monday’s Le Temps Mohammad Abdulkarim Alissa, the secretary general of the World Islamic League, the organization which oversees the religious institution Geneva. “The candidate associations did not meet our criteria because of their Islamic political discourse,” he explains.

“We decided to transform the board of directors into an international council, including personalities from Switzerland and elsewhere, to guarantee diversity and transparency.”

Birthdays and jubilees

– 10 years ago (2014): US President Barack Obama suffered a setback during the midterm elections. The Republicans obtained an absolute majority in the Senate, while they already had a majority in the House of Representatives.

– 40 years ago (1984): the French pay television channel Canal+ began broadcasting its national program.

– 100 years ago (1924): death of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (“Trois mots” in 1878, “Clair de lune” in 1887, “Pavane” in 1887 and “Requiem” in 1890). of the most important composers of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in France.

– 100 years ago (1924): Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected governor of Wyoming, becoming the first woman elected in the United States.