Conflict over Tinner nuclear files intensifies...

Following a police raid on a federal building in connection with a nuclear-smuggling case, tensions between Switzerland's judiciary and executive have escalated.

At the centre of the showdown is a dossier that contains roughly 100 pages of documents so sensitive that the government wants them destroyed. The original files were indeed shredded secretly in November 2007 but copies surfaced last December.

Andreas Kley, a law professor at Zurich University, rejects the government's argument that the exceptional nature of the case demands exceptional measures. More...

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