2013 in Switzerland explained

Events from 2013 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council

• • • • • • Doris Leuthard Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf Ueli Maurer (President)
            • • Didier Burkhalter Johann Schneider-Ammann Simonetta Sommaruga Alain Berset

Events

• 2 January – A man opens fire on people in the village of Daillon, Valais, killing 3 and wounding 2.^[1]
• 27 February – A man opens fire at a wood-processing plant in Menznau killing 5 people, including the shooter.^[2]
• September – By popular referendum approved by 66% of the voters, the canton of Ticino prohibited to hide the face in a public area. it become the first canton in Switzerland to ban it.^[3]

Deaths

• 16 May – Heinrich Rohrer, physicist (born 1933)^[4]

See also

• Public holidays in Switzerland

Notes and References

1. News: 2013-01-03 . Switzerland gunman kills three in Daillon in Valais . 2024-08-11 . BBC News . en-GB.
2. Web site: Death toll from Swiss Menznau shooting rises to five . The Independent . 11 February 2024 . en . 5 April 2013.
3. News: Burkas and niqabs banned from Swiss canton . London . The Daily Telegraph . Nick . Squires . 23 September 2013.
4. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 . NobelPrize.org . 8 February 2024.