How can not this be a racist campaign? I think it is so incongruous to say that crime is higher among foreigners, but yet the country has always been a refuge for all of the world’s top criminals, dictators, mass murderers and drug lords.

SVP [Swiss People's Party] officials insist that their campaign is not racist, just anticrime. “Every statistic shows that the participation of foreigners in crime is quite high,” said Ulrich Schlüer, an SVP Parliament deputy who has also led an initiative to ban minarets in Switzerland. “We cannot accept this. We are the only party that addresses this problem.”

Quoted: The posters taped on the walls at a political rally here capture the rawness of Switzerland’s national electoral campaign: three white sheep stand on the swiss flag as one of them kicks a single black sheep away