A Glarus resident dismantled a road sign installed on his property, including the metal bar that supported it. The Federal Court has just confirmed his sentence to a suspended financial penalty of twelve days, a fine of 810 francs and a fine.
At some point between May 2017 and March 2018, the plaintiff removed the signage. We do not know exactly when, but the man was convicted on the basis of evidence, we can read in a judgment of the Federal Court published on Wednesday.
The man had written to the municipality of Glarus Nord three times between February and June 2017 to request that the signage be removed. In his last letter to the president of the commune, he wrote that it was therefore clear that he was going to ‘remove the sign and charge you the 200 francs flat rate payable within 10 days’.
Years of conflict
The man never sent such an invoice to the municipality. The previous authorities still considered that in view of the other facts, he had removed the sign.
-Before the Federal Court, the Glaronais argued that the cantonal authorities had not correctly established the facts, but he did not sufficiently justify this point, wrote the high court in its judgment.
The Glaronais has apparently been engaged in a ‘multifaceted conflict’ with the municipality for years, indicates the judgment of the Federal Court. In one case, he sued the town because it had not paid a bill he had issued. (Judgment 6B_105/2024 of 9.1.2025)
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