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Nono · Sep 22, 2007, 10:51 am

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Europe's last witch-hunt

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Fear and superstition fuelled witch-hunts all over Europe in the Middle Ages and caused the deaths of many innocent women. The last execution for witchcraft took place little more than 200 years ago but campaigners in Switzerland claim it may be time to clear Anna Goeldi's name. (...)

Jeez, Switzerland can be pretty slow to examine its own conscience.

It reminds me of the case of Paul Ernst Grüninger, who was police chief in the canton of St Gallen up on the German border, until 1939 when he was fired for having saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees by helping them into Switzerland. For his trouble he was later even prosecuted and convicted in the Swiss courts. He died in 1972.

He was finally rehabilitated only 10 years ago.:rolleyes:

Arawn-ap-Hywel · Sep 24, 2007, 03:17 pm

Nono it's always good when appeals courts are willing to review past cases and redefine justice

Also I think you published this to aid the CIA, providing insights to resourrceful questioning of suspects

Nono · Sep 25, 2007, 09:51 am

Oh yeah, you know me -- always looking for ways to help the boys down in Langley or over at the Pentagon.:)

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Nono Throbbing Member Location: Old Europe Posts: 7,158	Oh yeah, you know me -- always looking for ways to help the boys down in Langley or over at the Pentagon.:) "I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything." -- Viscount Melbourne

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Arawn-ap-Hywel Hot Lava Posts: 1,124	Nono it's always good when appeals courts are willing to review past cases and redefine justice Also I think you published this to aid the CIA, providing insights to resourrceful questioning of suspects