– François de Siebenthal has died
Known for his opposition to the vaccine and measures against Covid, the Vaudois died Wednesday evening at the CHUV.
Published today at 12:11 p.m.
October 9, 2021 in Geneva, Place des Nations. François de Siebenthal addresses opponents of state measures against Covid.
Yvain Genevay
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The news spread on social networks. François de Siebenthal died Wednesday evening at the age of 68. According to the website citizen-light.fr, which is close to the convictions of the Vaudois, he had cancer. A widely followed personality in anti-vax and conspiracy circles, he found himself in intensive care at the CHUV in November 2021, struck by Covid while fighting state measures against the coronavirus.
He was subsequently able to take part in public or video interventions. But he remained on respiratory assistance. Geneva scientist Astrid Stuckelberger, controversial for her positions on Covid, confirms to us that François de Siebenthal died on Wednesday at 7:35 p.m. in palliative care at the CHUV. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren, “in faith and in serenity.”
Vaudois voters discovered François de Siebenthal in 2003. He presented himself by surprise in the second round of the election to the Council of State under the banner of the Vaudois Challenge against the ecologist François Marthaler. An economist, Catholic with very conservative positions, opposed to abortion, the father of eight children obtained 7% of the votes. Also consul of the Philippines, he was part of the Appeal to the People movement which brought together “justice rebels”.
Full Currency Initiative
In 2018, he was found as a champion of the “Full Money” initiative, which wanted to give the SNB the monopoly on the creation of digital currency. But the campaign committee distanced itself from him because he had intervened in the premises of the far-right group Swiss Resistancein Aigle.
Creator of the site 1291.one, he was still in the streets of Geneva on October 9, 2021, shortly before his hospitalization, during a demonstration opposing measures against the pandemic. He had described vaccines during a interview with RTS in December 2020as “toxic products” created by “sorcerer’s apprentices” with the aim of “doing harm”.
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