Embarrassing chapters in Swiss history

This police commander who saved thousands of Jewish refugees in the late 1930s is fired for malfeasance in office and only rehabilitated in 1995.

Despite UN sanctions, Swiss banks keep collaborating with the racist regime of this country in the 1980s.

This major part of the Swiss population is denied the right to vote until 1971.

In this canton, the right mentioned above has to be dictated by the Federal Supreme Court in 1990.

Swiss Confederate troops are heavily defeated by French and Venetian forces near this Lombard town in 1515, ending Swiss expansion in Northern Italy.

Swiss troops shoot 13 anti-fascist protesters and wound more than 60 in this city in 1932.

This act of violence of a husband against his own wife is legal until 1992.

This Swiss cyclist and two-time Vuelta winner admits doping in 1998.

Massive overspending in the planned purchase of this French jet fighter leads to a major scandal in Switzerland in the 1960s.

This once renowned airline files for bankruptcy in 2001 after years of mismanagement.

The Swiss national soccer team loses 1-2 on home ground to the national team of this tiny country - then number 152 in the Fifa ranking - in a World Cup qualifyer in 2008.

Nigerian immigrant Mike Ben Peter dies in 2018 after being pinned to the ground by six police officers for six minutes in this city in Western Switzerland.

This president fails to liberate two Swiss hostages on a journey to Libya in 2009 but brags about returning their luggage.

88 workers, most of them Italians, die in a possibly foreseeable ice avalanche when constructing the Mattmark dam in this canton in 1965.

This Swiss bank robber manages to escape from prison eight times.