Christophe Bader

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Christophe Bader (born January 7, 1972 , † January 7, 1993 ) was a Swiss man who was killed while trying to carry out an explosive attack on Bern's town hall .

Bader worked as a butcher in Nidau and lived in Lamboing in the Bernese Jura . He was a member of the Béliers , a militant youth organization of the Jurassic separatists in the Jurassic conflict . Among other things, he was outraged by court rulings against members of the Béliers, such as the prison sentence for Pascal Hêche for the destruction of the Justitia statue on the Bern Fountain of Justice .

According to investigations by the Federal Prosecutor's Office , he was planning an explosive attack on Bern's town hall with unknown accomplices . He originally planned the act for January 6, 1993, but slept through that day. At three in the morning the next day the car he was sitting in exploded on Nydeggstalden in Bern's old town . Bader died in the explosion, which was apparently triggered by the fact that he had switched on the car radio and thus triggered the detonator of his explosive device.

The unsuccessful attack led to great public outrage in Switzerland. In view Bader was designated as "terrorist". The federal prosecutor's office arrested several separatists. She announced that she had uncovered a whole series of attacks and found fuses and explosives in several hiding places in the Jura, about twelve kilograms in Saint-Brais .

In the Jura, the Béliers distanced themselves from the attack. The Jura government councilor Pierre Boillat condemned the violence, but expressed condolences to Bader's family. The entire Jura cantonal government and the leaders of the separatist movement attended Bader's funeral. In front of their father's inn in Saint-Brais , the Béliers erected an old mill wheel as a memorial stone for the "missing Jurassic militants" with a "special thought of Christophe Bader".

Bader's attempted attack gave rise to the political settlement of the Jura conflict between the cantons of Bern and Jura with the mediation of the federal government. The cantons agreed on a second vote in the Bernese Jura, which took place on November 24, 2013 and confirmed the affiliation to the canton of Bern, subject to a pending community vote in Moutier .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Stefan von Bergen: From the painful waning of anger . In: Berner Zeitung , October 20, 2013, accessed October 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ Stefan von Bergen: Jura question: "Was it worth your life?" In: Die Zeit , October 31, 2013, accessed on January 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bader, Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss man who was killed while attempting an explosive attack on Bern's town hall
DATE OF BIRTH 7th January 1972
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1993