Nearly 75% of expulsions ordered in Switzerland in 2023 have been carried out – rts.ch

Swiss courts can order the expulsion of delinquent foreigners. Controlled departures took place on a voluntary basis for around a third and under constraint for the other two thirds, wrote the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in a press release published on Tuesday.

More than 1500 people

At the end of 2023, the SEM had recorded the controlled departure of 1,531 people. As carrying out expulsions requires a certain amount of preparation, those ordered towards the end of the year could only be carried out during 2024. Around 140 additional people subject to expulsion in 2023 left Switzerland in a controlled manner during of the first half of 2024, which brings the execution rate for 2023 to almost 73%.

As more evictions are planned to be carried out, this figure will increase further. At the end of 2023, the execution rate for evictions issued during the first quarter of the same year was 87.1%.

A good third of people who left Switzerland were nationals of an EU or EFTA member state, mainly from Romania (9%), France (5%) and Italy (5%). Third-country nationals most often came from Albania (17%), Algeria (10%) and Morocco (4%). More than 90% of departures concerned men, mostly aged 18 to 54, according to SEM statistics.

First annual statistics

Criminal expulsion measure pronounced by the Swiss courts, expulsions involve removal from Switzerland or the Schengen area and a ban on entering Switzerland or the Schengen area for a certain time, recalls the SEM.

The execution of evictions falls under the jurisdiction of the cantons, which can rely on the SEM. Following several parliamentary interventions, the SEM is able to present statistics on the measures implemented for the year 2023. This first was made possible by the fact that the cantons carried out a systematic recording of the evictions ordered and their execution. .

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