17 local due to violation of certificate control
Since the introduction of the new certificate controls at the end of September, 17 restaurants have been closed in French-speaking Switzerland.
the essentials in brief
- A certificate has been required in Swiss restaurants since September.
- In western Switzerland, 17 restaurants were closed due to violations of this requirement.
- Most of the businesses affected are located in the canton of Geneva.
According to a survey by the Keystone-SDA news agency among the authorities and police in the six French-speaking cantons, there has been no such extreme case as the one in Zermatt in the canton of Valais since the requirement to present a health passport.
Nevertheless, three other cantons have reported closings: Geneva, Vaud and Neuchâtel.
The Geneva police had to intervene based on reports at 17 restaurants to sanction them. 14 of them were closed. In view of the many restaurants in Geneva, this number has to be put into perspective, said the communications officer of the Geneva cantonal police, Silvain Guillaume-Gentil. Most of them adhered well to the new editions.
The canton of Vaud has only one case in Montreux in which the verification of the Covid certificate was refused and the restaurant was subsequently closed. The gerantin appeals and the administrative court still has to decide on a possible suspensive effect.
Another case from Vaud concerns a museum. The «Fort de Chillon», located next to Chillon Castle, has closed its doors, but on its own initiative in protest against the health pass. The museum officials avoided the threat of closure by the canton.
In the canton of Neuchâtel, two public companies have been administratively closed since the introduction of the Covid certificate. In addition, you had been issued in a dozen warnings, with the operators complied with the instructions, said Pierre-François Gobat, head of the cantonal food safety and veterinary office.
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The Zermatt case has not found any imitators even in the canton of Valais. According to the canton police, advertisements are also rather rare.
The owners of the restaurant in Zermatt, which made headlines around the world because of the turmoil surrounding the denial of the certificate requirement, have had their patent revoked for an indefinite period. The restaurant is therefore still closed, as Frédéric Favre, head of the Justice and Police Department, confirmed.
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