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Many media and institutions in French-speaking Switzerland lent themselves to the traditional game of April 1st. “20 minutes” also trapped you. Small anthology of the best jokes of the 2022 vintage.
Everyone went for their April Fool’s this morning.
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A vegetated cathedral to fight once morest heat islands in the city of Geneva. This is the “proposal” of the Department of the Geneva territory in order to develop a greener city, announces the Geneva Grandstand this morning. From spring 2023, the roofs of Saint-Pierre Cathedral will be covered with a plant cover and solar panels to fight once morest global warming. “Here is a fine example that combines usefulness with audacity!”, according to Antonio Hodgers, State Councilor in charge of the department. The newspaper specifies that the ambitious project was very well received by the Protestant Church of Geneva!
On his side, Arcinfo announces a small revolution in Neuchâtel sport. The presidents of Neuchâtel Xamax and HC La Chaux-de-Fonds are working on a merger of the two clubs. Objective: to create synergy and pool activities that are currently carried out twice. Like Paris Saint-Germain or FC Barcelona! “The whole of the canton, the Top as the Bottom, might identify with a single club”, proclaims Olivier Calame, president of HC La Chaux-de-Fonds. The new structure already has a name: H-Max, H for HC La Chaux-de-Fonds and for “high” (high in English), Max for Max Abegglen whose nickname “Xam” is the origin of Xamax.
NATO to the rescue of the Bernese Jura and ecological confinement
Surrounded by eight municipalities swearing allegiance to the canton of Bern, the Bernese municipality of Belprahon calls on NATO to secure its territory and reassure its population, we learn The mail. Because from 2026, the neighbor Moutier will pass into Jura hands, leaving the irreducible Belprahon alone once morest the Bernese. This is why the municipality officially requests its adhesion to the North Atlantic Treaty. Contacted by Le Courrier, NATO claims to have “other fish to fry with Ukraine”.
The Confederation, for its part, is considering energy breaks, once or several times a year, to achieve the objectives of carbon neutrality before 2050. “The population has accepted lockdowns for a virus whose real dangerousness was unknown, they must also accept some. for a danger which we know will be fatal.” This is the opinion of Aline Stopper, a Neuchâtel climatologist hired in January by the Confederation as a scientific consultant. She submitted an iconoclastic proposal there: to carry out one or more annual “energy breaks” or “green lockdowns” to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. Despite everything, you were few to unearth this April Fool’s joke in your favorite newspaper!
Compulsory weekly fondue in the canteen
The yellow and the post, It’s finish! What was previously called “the yellow giant” completely changed its visual identity by going green. Swiss Post’s drive to achieve its ambitious sustainability goals is ending a 100-year-old marriage. “The fact that Swiss Post is focusing on sustainability is nothing new. What is new is that it must be seen at first glance, ”wrote the now green giant in a press release.
The future of La Poste is written in green.
Credit: Swiss Post
The Alliance vaudoise, formed by the candidates PLR, UDC and Le Center for the election to the Council of State of the canton of Vaud, makes a strong proposal to try to convince the voters before the second round on April 10: the right wants introduce a mandatory weekly fondue in Vaud school canteens. Because following all: “The fondue is the terroir. Fondue is cohesion. Fondue is sharing. Fondue is tradition”, explains the Alliance, which sees in this dish all the values it defends!
A police pig and a house that grows by itself
A little powder and water: that’s all a researcher needs. l’EPFL to build a house! Frieda, holder of two doctorates, has pushed multidisciplinarity within the polytechnic school to its climax. By bringing together knowledge of mycology, genomics and architecture, the researcher in sustainable construction techniques has managed to grow a kind of mushroom that takes the form of a hollow block. The first prototype is 32m² and “grows” in regarding two months. Another huge advantage of this “skeleton”: it consumes a large amount of atmospheric CO₂, which makes it a real carbon sink.
Finally, the Geneva police introduce us to their potential new recruit: Betty the pig! The animal is expected to join the ranks of law enforcement in the fall. The New Zealand Longhaired Kunekune has already proven its worth to Colonel Monica Bonfanti, Commander of the Police. She has also dispatched an assessor to the Bioparc in Geneva, where Betty resides, “in order to rigorously assess the real possibilities of hiring Betty within the Geneva police”. A recruitment session that was filmed:
