Switzerland may face more scenes of violence next week following two nights of rioting, according to one of the country's top sociologists. Dramatic riots erupted in Lausanne, Switzerland, over the weekend after a migrant teen was killed in a scooter crash while fleeing the police.
Note that: not 'By the police'. But of course, that doesn't matter, any more than it does in the banlieues of Paris.
Much of the anger came from a long-standing view that police in Lausanne are systemically racist against migrants who have settled there. Marvin's death was the third death involving police in less than three months in the city, with seven in the wider Vaud region since 2016. Five of those deaths were of men originally from Africa.
What did they expect would happen when they allowed a large population of immigrants to settle in Switzerland? Had they not seen how it had gone elsewhere in Europe? Having professors of sociology didn't exactly pour oil on troubled waters:
Sandro Cattacin, a professor of sociology at the University of Geneva, told the Daily Mail that he believes Switzerland, ordinarily seen as a beacon of stability on the continent, will see more violence in the coming days. Cattacin warned that pressure groups may see the riots as a chance to latch on and cause their own violence: 'I expect that we will have [riots] again next week. Now you have these other groups, people related to more to more aggressive anti-capitalist positions, who say "OK, that's the moment we can have riots".
We call them 'rentamob', prof!
He added that the only way to dissipate the anger felt by society was to open a dialogue between the police and marginalised groups
What do you expect the police to say:'Obey the law'?
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