Marco Camenisch

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Marco Camenisch

Marco Camenisch (born January 21, 1952 in Campocologno , Canton of Graubünden ) is a Swiss anarchist and eco-terrorist .

Life

The son of a customs officer attended grammar school in the Evangelical Middle School in Schiers and left school without a qualification. He began an agricultural apprenticeship in the Plantahof in Landquart , but could not make friends with advanced animal breeding and the use of artificial fertilizers and moved to an alp.

In the 1970s he was active in the anti-nuclear movement and developed into a militant opponent of nuclear energy. In 1979 and 1980, he and his accomplices committed several explosive attacks on high-voltage pylons and transformers in the north-eastern Swiss power plants . Camenisch was sentenced to ten years in prison by the cantonal court in Chur . In December 1981 he and five other prisoners managed to escape from the Regensdorf prison . The refugees shot one guard and injured another. In retrospect, it was found that he was not the shooter in the case of the prison break. Camenisch became one of the most wanted people in Switzerland. On September 3, 1989, he was spotted in Brusio while visiting the grave of his recently deceased father. When a border guard was found shot shortly afterwards, the suspicion fell on Camenisch.

In November 1991, Camenisch was arrested in Tuscany . The arrest was preceded by an exchange of fire with the Italian police, in which a policeman was slightly injured and Camenisch was seriously injured in his knees and legs. In 1993, Camenisch was sentenced to twelve years in prison in Italy for assault and explosives offenses and was extradited to the Swiss authorities on April 18, 2002. The responsible Zurich public prosecutor applied for custody for the murder of the border guard . In 2004, the jury sentenced Camenisch to 17 years in prison. The authenticity of the evidence in the circumstantial trial was questioned by the defense and Camenisch denied the act. This sentence was reduced to 8 years by the federal court , as Camenisch had already served part of his sentence in Italy.

In Italy, Camenisch was acquitted in a second trial in which 47 anarchists from the insurrectionalist Organizzazione rivoluzionaria anarchica insurrezionale were brought to justice. Camenisch was not granted conditional release in 2012, since 2015 he has been in open prison in the Saxerriet prison . On March 10, 2017, Camenisch was conditionally released from prison.

Demonstrations

In 2002 and 2003 there were rallies for Marco Camenisch. B. on June 1, 2002 in front of the Zurich district building and on February 9, 2003 in front of the prison in Chur, where he was imprisoned at the time. In Italy, the RAI relay station in Bergamo and the valley station of the Abetone cable car were destroyed and Camenisch's concern was drawn to the attention of Camenisch with the slogan "Fire for the destroyers, freedom for Marco".

Unauthorized rallies for Camenisch took place on May 8 and June 13, 2004 in Zurich and Regensdorf, respectively. In the night from Monday to Tuesday, 24./25. In May 2004, an arson attack was carried out on a Swisscom multi-purpose system in Zurich , with the perpetrators demanding the freedom of Marco Camenisch in a letter of confession and a graffiti.

The trial of his possible custody on March 12, 2007 was disrupted by sympathizers of Camenisch. In September 2007, Camenisch trailers set fire to two brand new coaches on the premises of MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Schweiz AG in Otelfingen . Four other vehicles were damaged. An anonymous letter of confession was sent to various media.

On the night of February 28th to 29th, 2008, government councilor Markus Notter's car in Dietikon was set on fire, so that the facade of the house was also damaged. Camenisch's hunger strike was justified in an anonymous letter of confession .

literature

  • Kurt Brandenberger: Marco Camenisch. Life in the resistance. Real-time publishing house, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-905800-92-0
  • Marco Camenisch: Résignation et complicité, Entremonde , Geneva 2011.
  • Piero Tognoli (ed.): ATTENTION BANDITS! Marco Camenisch e l'ecologismo radicale (texts by and about Marco Camenisch), Natilius, Turin 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Ladurner: The life of Marco Camenisch. In: zeit.de . April 24, 2015, accessed June 13, 2015 .
  2. ^ WOZ Online: Die Saboteure from May 15, 2003.
  3. ^ Press release from the Federal Office of Justice of April 18, 2004.
  4. ↑ Tagesschau: Prison for Camenisch ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from June 4, 2004.
  5. ^ Zürcher Unterländer Online: Marco Camenisch remains in custody from February 11, 2006.
  6. ↑ Patricia D'Incau: Do n't become an accomplice - young world. In: jungewelt.de. May 29, 2015, accessed June 13, 2015 .
  7. ↑ 20 minutes online: Camenisch: Defeat for the public prosecutor from March 13, 2007.
  8. ↑ La Repubblica Online: Anarchici, un ergastolo e sette condanne of February 1, 2003.
  9. ↑ TagesAnzeiger online: Camenisch is to remain in custody until 2018 from January 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ TagesAnzeiger online: “Eco-Terrorist” is no longer imprisoned from November 20, 2015.
  11. ↑ NZZ Online: The “Eco-Terrorist” is free from March 14, 2017
  12. ↑ NZZ Online: Andrea Stauffacher is threatened with prison again from June 8, 2005
  13. ↑ Indymedia.org: Südostschweiz on Marco-Camenisch-Demo from February 10, 2003.
  14. ↑ Indymedia.org: acquittal for Marco Camenisch in Italy on February 4, 2003.
  15. ^ Swissinfo.ch: arrests at the Camenisch demonstration on May 9, 2004.
  16. ↑ Zürcher Unterländer Online: No more «prison walks» from June 17, 2004.
  17. ↑ Blick.ch: Riot at the Camenisch trial of March 12, 2007
  18. ↑ NZZ Online: Fire at the MAN truck group causes damage worth millions on September 20, 2007.
  19. ↑ NZZ Online: Arson attack on Justice Director Markus Notter's car on March 1, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Camenisch, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss eco-terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Campocologno