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Chronology for Jurassians in Switzerland

Publisher Minorities at Risk Project
Publication Date 2004
Cite as Minorities at Risk Project, Chronology for Jurassians in Switzerland, 2004, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/469f38e32.html [accessed 3 November 2019]
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Date(s) Item
1991 Jura separatists topple an historic gold-encrusted statue in the city of Berne.
Aug 1, 1991 On Switzerland's 700th anniversary, Jura separatists use weedkiller to spell out "Jura libre" (free Jura) in 10-foot-tall letters in the grass of the sacred Ruetli meadow.
Sep 1992 Pascal Heuhe, a member of the Belier party, gets political asylum in the canton of Jura after being sentenced to 22 months in jail in the canton of Berne.
Nov 30, 1992 Leaders of Switzerland's French speakers say that they will react bitterly and may demand more autonomy if an upcoming national referendum rejects closer integration with Europe.
1993 Jura separatists dye the water of a public Berne swimming pool bright violet.
Jan 8, 1993 A man, apparently a member of the Belier party, is killed when a bomb prematurely explodes. A second bomb explodes an hour later in the home of the Sanglier group which opposes Jura separatism. This occurs 2 days after the Swiss supreme court confirms the jail sentence of a Belier member for a bomb attack in 1986.
Feb 5, 1993 Swiss police say that the Belier party planned a series of bomb attacks. Future planned attacks, according to the police, include attacks on a statue of legendary national hero William Tell, an arms depot and an army barracks. Police also discover several arms caches.
Feb 26, 1993 Belier party leader Daniel Pape is arrested and a cache of about 50 grenades is found in his attic.
Mar 12, 1995 The first of 4 plebiscites which are required by Swiss law for a region to switch cantons occurs in the tiny Swiss hamlet of Vellera (population 70). The hamlet wishes to leave the canton of Berne and join the canton of Jura.

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