LMinister of Justice Karin Keller-Sutter repeats several times: “For these people, it’s war!” Less than three months following the first Russian strikes, Switzerland granted protection to more than 50,000 Ukrainian refugees. For the Federal Councillor, “if we were able to accommodate so many people in such a short time, it is thanks to the S status”.
Developed in 1999 at the time of the Kosovo war, this status had never been used before. For Karin Keller-Sutter, “it made it possible to avoid the congestion of the federal centres” where applicants can file their asylum application. She in…