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Swiss move to ban Nazi symbols

Swiss move to ban Nazi symbols

GENEVA: It is perfectly legal to display Nazi symbols in Switzerland despite dismay at a large swastika flag being hung at a military memorabilia market earlier this month and Third Reich insignia openly traded online.But things could be about to change in Geneva at least, one of the country's 26 cantons.A cross-party group of regional lawmakers wants to change the canton’s constitution to “prohibit the display or wearing of Nazi symbols, emblems or any other Nazi object” in public.They hope Geneva's cantonal legislature will agree to the change on Friday -- International Holocaust Remembrance Day.Museums and film productions would be exempt from the ban, which would bring Switzerland in line with much of the rest of Europe.The change will have to be approved by the federal Swiss parliament in Bern and then by a referendum in Geneva.“It is never too late to prevent Nazi ideas from being expressed via these items,“ Liberal lawmaker Alexis Barbey, who co-signed the proposal, told AFP.Fra

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