Report clears asylum centre personnel of wrongdoing

A report has cleared a private security firm and government migration authorities of wrongdoing after an undercover journalistic exposé claimed physical abuse of asylum seekers by security personnel at a federal asylum centre in Kreuzlingen. The journalistic piece, which ran in the SonntagsZeitung newspaper in January, reported that terrorists, smugglers and drug dealers were able to gain access to the asylum centre in Kreuzlingen undetected, and that security personnel had shown physically abusive behaviour towards asylum seekers. Mario Gattiker, the head of the State Secretariat for Migration SEM, which is responsible for running federal asylum centres, asked former Federal Court member Michel Féraud to look into the allegations. Féraud presented his findings on Tuesday, stating that he had not found any concrete evidence of wrongdoing. In conducting his research, Féraud looked at eight incidents in which security personnel were accused of using unacceptable ...