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Wolfgang J.* (53) leads police officers to the cornfield where he disposed of his wife’s body. The Swiss strangled Orathai P.* († 46) on January 8, 2024 in a marital dispute and took him away on a motorcycle.
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The citizens of Phuket are fed up with us Swiss. Because in Thailand we are the problem foreigners! Over 100,000 foreigners are settling on Thailand’s largest island. Twelve million tourists overrun it every year. The Swiss are also increasingly moving to the Far Eastern holiday paradise. 1000 live in Phuket alone. We are no longer popular at the moment. Because many a confederate bullies, beats and even murders. Three cases have landed on the front pages of local newspapers in the past few weeks – and a gigantic shitstorm has been rolling against us online for weeks.
In local social networks, many police reports contain a comment along the lines of “was it Swiss again?” Because in the last few weeks there has been an accumulation of Swiss people who have attracted negative attention.
The freak out of an Aargau resident on February 24, 2024 led to a real demonstration. The operator of an elephant sanctuary kicked a Thai woman in the back after insulting her. Their crime: After an evening stroll on the beach, the doctor and her friend were sitting on the last step of the stairs that lead from K’s property to the beach. The 45-year-old found something cheeky and kicked off.
Over 500 angry Phuket locals then marched to Manfred K.*’s villa. On banners they demanded free beaches for citizens and the immediate expulsion of the rowdy Swiss. He was also in custody. According to media reports, the immigration authorities have revoked Manfred K.’s residence permit. His behavior was a “threat to social peace,” according to the reasoning. The foreigners were taking up far too much space, one protester told the Bangkok Post.
Broken nose, bruises and bruises
Even the Thai Prime Minister commented on the case in Phuket. He had instructed the relevant authorities to ensure that foreigners adhered to Thai laws, said Srettha Thavisin (62) in Thai media.
Almost two weeks later, this Swiss man also made headlines: Beat L.* (60) bumped into a 58-year-old on crutches in a department store in the city of Trang on March 5th. When the woman calls out to him in English to be more careful, he starts hitting the Thai woman. She defends herself and throws a water bottle at him. Then Beat L. gets really brutal. He throws the woman to the ground, puts his knee on her neck and beats her. Diagnosis in the hospital: broken nose, bruises on both eyes, bruises on the back.
The incident caused the next shitstorm on the internet. Thais let off steam on the Reddit platform. The Swiss would leave their human “waste” in Thailand, complains one user. “Off to a shithole prison, then deportation and banishment,” demands another. It’s time to cancel the Swiss visas, said another voice. And: The Swiss are now worse than the Russians and Indians.
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The series of violence in Thailand begins with Wolfgang J.** (53). The Swiss man strangled his Thai wife on January 8, 2024 and stuck a Jack of Hearts card down her throat. He takes her on his motorbike to a corn field in Ban Khok Kruat, around six kilometers from his house. Then he reports Orathai P.* (†46) missing. The body was only recovered after his confession on January 29th. From then on, the hatred of the Swiss began.
He strangled his wife: Here the Swiss man (53) is taken away (01:13)
“Some rich foreigners believe they are above the law,” says Josef Schnyder (64), who lives in Thailand himself, “they behave arrogantly. This bothers the population. “We in Switzerland also expect foreigners to respect us.” But in general the Swiss are decent people, emphasizes the delegate from the Swiss Community abroad organization in Thailand in an interview with Blick. Around 11,400 Swiss live in Thailand, over half of whom are pensioners, says Schnyder, “the number of emigrants has doubled in the last ten years.” But acts of violence like those of the last few weeks are rare in the Swiss community.
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