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I just revisited this thread to say that I too have become a victim of government backed police overreach, as of today.
At 9 in the morning I was on my way to work, taking the usual route. There was snow and ice all over the road and some wreckage from a previous accident.
I drove slowly but to no avail. My car slipped on the damaged road, I lost control and traversed down a small but steep cliff, doing a "360" on the way (violently crushing my beloved Honda Jazz in the process).
Long story short, when Swiss police arrived one of them immediately took my passport and was about to shove me in the police car. An argument broke out between the ambulance driver and the police, with the cop loudly proclaiming that "If he can stand on his own, he can come with us). One that the ambulance did, thankfully, win.
This is where it could've ended. Unfortunately, police didn't stop there. They showed up at the hospital three hours later, "invited" me to an "interview" and, once at the police station, went to question me for 30 minutes, never telling me I could call on a lawyer (Cop A: "Innocents don't need lawyers"). After 30 minutes they forced me to sign a document that proclaimed I had been told about the possibility of consulting a lawyer, then Cop A suddenly told me I'd have to post a bail of 1,500 Swiss francs (1,510 USD), with Cop B violently rattling a chain with many keys in my face (supposedly cell keys).
I didn't have that much money on me and lost my credit card in the snow near the crashside, so it took 5 hours for my relatives to organise the money and drive over to the police station. That whole time I was forced to sit in a room without access to a bathroom and "broken" heating, listening to the taunting voices of Cop A and Cop B telling me
they'd show a "savage" like me what "real justice" looked like.
Don't trust the police, people! Particularly not the Swiss one, which is even less civil than some of their US counterparts.
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