Béliers

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The Béliers ( French for Aries , rams , battering rams , battering rams ) are a militant youth organization of the Jura separatists in the Jura conflict .

The Béliers appeared primarily in the 1960s and 1970s with provocative actions. Since the creation of the canton of Jura in 1979, the Béliers have campaigned for the unification of the southern Jura , which remained with the canton of Bern, with the canton of Jura. In doing so, they often resorted to radical methods to draw attention to their concerns. The actions were and are each directed against particularly symbolic goals.

  • In 1984 they stole the Unspunnenstein from the tourism museum of the Jungfrau region in Interlaken and handed it over to Shawne Fielding , Thomas Borer's wife at the time and official ambassador of the Swiss National Exhibition Expo, on August 12, 2001 on the occasion of the Marché Concours in Saignelégier . 02 .
  • Also in 1984 they tore the Fritz soldier memorial on Les Rangiers from its base, causing the head to break off. After the monument was restored, car tires were burned on the base , which blackened it and a piece of the soldier's figure flaked off due to the heat. In 1989 the Fritz was torn to the ground again and robbed of its head and bayonet . The head was destroyed on September 24, 2004 by two masked members of the separatist organization in front of the town hall of Delémont with hammer and chisel, while the ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the canton of Jura was taking place in the town hall.
  • In 1985 they carried out a bomb attack on the courthouse in Moutier .
  • In 1986 they tore the 400-year-old statue of Justitia from the base of the Fountain of Justice in the old town of Bern ; it was then replaced by a copy.
  • In 1989 they set fire to the old wooden bridge at Büren an der Aare .
  • In 1993, the separatist Christophe Bader died in Bern after an explosive device exploded .
  • In 2009 they dismantled the pyramid above the symbolic center of Switzerland on the Älggi-Alp .

The counter-movement to the Béliers are the anti-separatist Sangliers .

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  1. ↑ Center of Switzerland: pyramid stolen. In: New Obwaldner Zeitung . May 12, 2009, archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on April 15, 2020 .