Last but not least: Swiss media take April 1 seriously
Hard-working Swiss rock cleaners and five-digit ZIP codes: With these and other claims, Swiss newspapers and radio stations played an April Fools’ Day prank on their readers and listeners on Wednesday.
Peer Steinbrück as a tax evader and five-digit zip codes: Newspapers and radio stations sent their readers and listeners into April with these and other April Fool's jokes on Wednesday. A newspaper hoax in the Bernese daily Der Bund reported that dozens of place names ending in -igen would be renamed in the canton of Bern. Frutigen, for example, would be renamed Frutingen.
The free newspapers 20 Minuten and News took over the April Fool's joke from Switzerland Tourism and reported that prominent mountain peaks had to be cleared of bird droppings.
The Anzeiger Luzern newspaper reported that the German finance minister had banned the product Aromat because it makes you fat. In addition, Steinbrück may be evading taxes in Switzerland, as Radio Top found out. According to SDA, the Geneva Courrier and Die Südostschweiz also did not refrain from making an April Fool's joke about banking secrecy. The Olten Tagblatt, on the other hand, reported the city council's approval for the construction of a Formula 1 racetrack. Radio Argovia, Radio Grischa and the Solothurner Tagblatt also took no pleasure in the April Fool's joke. According to Argovia, the zip codes would be extended from four to five digits and, according to Grischa, the canton of Graubünden would get the Valtellina back.
The free newspapers 20 Minuten and News took over the April Fool's joke from Switzerland Tourism and reported that prominent mountain peaks had to be cleared of bird droppings.
The Anzeiger Luzern newspaper reported that the German finance minister had banned the product Aromat because it makes you fat. In addition, Steinbrück may be evading taxes in Switzerland, as Radio Top found out. According to SDA, the Geneva Courrier and Die Südostschweiz also did not refrain from making an April Fool's joke about banking secrecy. The Olten Tagblatt, on the other hand, reported the city council's approval for the construction of a Formula 1 racetrack. Radio Argovia, Radio Grischa and the Solothurner Tagblatt also took no pleasure in the April Fool's joke. According to Argovia, the zip codes would be extended from four to five digits and, according to Grischa, the canton of Graubünden would get the Valtellina back.
