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Nearly 55% of voters in Switzerland on Sunday rejected an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country’s population at 10 million, early results showed.

The populist Swiss People’s Party, which has the most seats in parliament, has stirred up and fostered anti-migration sentiment over the years, notably about an influx of workers from the neighboring European Union.

Some have dubbed the proposal a “Swiss Brexit” because it could jeopardize Switzerland’s deep ties to the European Union anchored by deals that foster economic growth, cultural ties and cross-border travel, among other things. Switzerland is not one of the EU’s 27 member states, but it is all but surrounded by four of them

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[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if the output from the judicial system is the right tool to understand those issues.

Those are known to discriminate.

[–] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

What tool should we use? Crime rates in their native countries?

[–] katzimir@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

in germany the stats mentioned here look at suspects not at convictions.

Also checked that wikipedia citation abt sweden. It is from one study that defines second generation immiration status as immigrant. secondly that same wikipedia entry mentions that roughly 80 percent of cases are not reported. there are some scenarios that i can think of that prove this study to be utterly useless uneless it is meant to sow xenophobia.

[–] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

You think Swedish state media (SVT), rated by Media Bias Fact Check as:Center Left and High Factuality ,is trying to spread xenophobia?

In 2018, Swedish Television investigative journalism show Uppdrag Granskning analysed the total of 843 district court cases from the five preceding years and found that 58% of all convicted of rape and attempted rape had a foreign background.[23][32] 40% were immigrants born in the Middle East and Africa, with young men from Afghanistan numbering 45 standing out as being the next most common country of birth after Sweden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sveriges-television-svt-bias-and-credibility/