Pirate campaign: Swiss posters pasted over
"Special flights from CHF 8999 - Only outward flight possible": This can currently be read on some of the posters of the airline Swiss. Unknown people are using the stickers to protest against repatriation flights. Swiss is aware of the campaign, but is currently not responding.
Some Swiss posters with the airline's current advertising slogan "Only cheap is too cheap for us" were pasted over with the red note in the city of Bern, for example. The modified poster also reads: "Go back to your home country in comfort - at the expense of the Swiss Confederation". The posters also featured a picture of a deportee tied to a chair and wearing a helmet.
Swiss spokesperson Jean-Claude Donzel is aware of the campaign, as he explained to the SDA news agency on Friday. The pasting began a few weeks ago in French-speaking Switzerland. Donzel suspects that the activists took up the glue brush in the wake of the documentary Vol Spécial by Fernand Melgar. The film documents the practice of deporting rejected asylum seekers. The legal service has been informed, said Donzel. However, the airline is refraining from taking legal action against the pirate action. No one has yet claimed responsibility. The Swiss spokesperson emphasized that his airline, like other airlines, does carry out deportation flights, but only at the behest of the federal government. The company had no other choice.
