Woman condemned in Switzerland for Facebook insult...

In the first case of its kind in Switzerland, a young woman has been fined for insulting someone on facebook.

The free newspaper “20 Minuten” reported on Monday that the 19-year-old from the eastern city of St Gallen had been a member of a group opposing a move to ban weekend concerts at the KuGL cultural centre which went on until 5 in the morning.

She had referred to a man who wanted the concerts banned as a “Seckel” – roughly equivalent to “idiot” – and called him a “truurige Mensch”, or “sad”. More...

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