{"id":9233,"date":"2013-08-16T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2013-08-16T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:32:29","slug":"swiss-town-discovers-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"Swiss town discovers Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9234\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bremgarten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9234\" alt=\"Bremgarten\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bremgarten.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bremgarten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A town in Switzerland is being likened to apartheid-era South Africa, after the local mayor drew up plans to ban asylum-seekers from some public places.<\/p>\n<p>A new centre to house migrants has been opened in Bremgarten, 20 kilometres west of Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals would see the newcomers kept away from a sports centre, the swimming pool and areas around schools, in order to preserve the peace in the town of 6,500 residents, according to the mayor, Raymond Tellenbach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted these restrictions in order to prevent tension with residents, especially with students. It\u2019s for their security. We want to be sure that they are not molested,\u201d said Tellenbach.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of keeping the 150 asylum-seekers living at the centre away from certain areas has drawn criticism from politicians from a wide range of parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis reminds me of apartheid. This leads to two classes of citizens \u2013 those who can go everywhere and those who cannot, only because of their residence status,\u201d said Socialist MP Silvia Schenker<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland is in the racial spotlight after Oprah Winfrey accused a shop assistant in Zurich of being racist. The black American TV-star apologised later for het rant.<\/p>\n<p>The American media icon, who is one of the world\u2019s richest women, claims the shop assistant refused to show her a handbag which cost more than 26,000 euros.<\/p>\n<p>The shop-owner says the incident was a misunderstanding. euronews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A town in Switzerland is being likened to apartheid-era South Africa, after the local mayor drew up plans to ban asylum-seekers from some public places. A new centre to house migrants has been opened in Bremgarten, 20 kilometres west of Zurich. The proposals would see the newcomers kept away from a sports centre, the swimming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swiss town discovers Apartheid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[164,5198,2363,157,653],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-apartheid","tag-bremgarten","tag-immigrants","tag-racism","tag-switzerland"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bremgarten.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9235,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions\/9235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}