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The Pischa mountain restaurant in Davos, Switzerland, has sparked a
police investigation after announcing it will no longer rent out snow
sports equipment to Jewish guests.
This has caused another scandal in the alpine resort involving this
group of guests. The Graubünden cantonal police have launched an
investigation on suspicion of discrimination and incitement to hatred.
The restaurant at the Pischa mountain station no longer rents out
sledges, airboards, skis and snowshoes to Jewish guests. They are
being informed of this in a letter in Hebrew posted on site and
addressed disrespectfully as “our brothers”, the online portal 20
Minuten reported on Monday.
According to the letter, various “annoying incidents” had led to the
rental stop.
The media office of the Graubünden cantonal police confirmed the
matter to the Keystone-SDA news agency on request. The police had
received a report from a private individual. “We have classified it as
a possible official offence and have therefore started an
investigation,” said media spokesman Roman Rüegg.
On enquiry, the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) spoke of
a new “level of audacity”. “An entire group of guests is being
collectively denigrated on the basis of their appearance and origin,”
wrote SIG Secretary General Jonathan Kreutner in a statement.
This is not just a moral and tasteful offence. “We will take legal
action or file a complaint for violation of the criminal offence of
racism”, Kreutner announced.
For the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, the rental ban is not
an isolated incident. There is a lot wrong in Davos. There are hotels, restaurants and shops that do not warmly welcome Jewish guests. “Just
last summer, the local tourism organisation put cooperation with us
and our dialogue project on ice,” wrote the Secretary General.
The mountain restaurant and the Davos Kloster tourism organisation
could not be reached for comment until Monday afternoon. Sportbahnen
Pischa explained that the restaurant is an externally leased location
of the mountain railway. The company is not familiar with the matter.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/identities/swiss-police-probe-hotel-ski-rental-ban-for-jewish-guests/72499687
It is completely understandable why the owners of a resort wouldn't
want jews staying there. These are not clean people and God only knows
what diseases they're carrying. This is a matter of health.
So far as the Jews are concerned, they do not want to be placed in
comfortable buildings. They actually prefer to live as many to a room
as possible. They have no conception of sanitation, hygiene or decency
and are, as you know, the same sub-human types that we saw in the
internment camps."
- U.S. General George S. Patton in a letter 4 October 1945 and
addressed to former aide Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman
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