Ski official resigns following fraud indictment
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Swiss-Ski vice-president Claude-Alain Schmidhalter has been provisionally suspended and has resigned his post as head of the World Ski Cup organizing committee. The move follows an indictment involving allegations of fraud and breach of trust against a former business partner.
The season’s first snow is expected to reach 20 centimeters in the Alps today, though the shift in weather is being felt elsewhere as rain. While winter arrives, other things are climbing: ticks have been reported at higher altitudes in Graubünden, and Zurich renters moving house are facing potential increases even as national property prices show the first tentative signs of a slowdown.
In Geneva, a citizen initiative has been launched to force a public vote on the CERN collider, with organizers framing the project as scientific excess. It is a day for skepticism toward large institutions: national rail operators are closing 13 more travel centers, and staff at the public broadcaster are protesting the dismissal of their foreign editor.