The Landbote (2014) reports on a case of confidence trickster in Winterthur. The article explains in detail the details of the crime, which revolves around the attempted fraud against a Swiss merchant. The perpetrators of the crime are called Serbian Rroma, which is a clear allusion to racist notions of culturally-related crime: “The merchant should have changed 240,000 francs for 200,000 euro and would have received a commission of 10,000 euro. In truth, the native Serbian Roma simply wanted to give the victim counterfeited euro notes.” Mentioning the ethnicity in connection with criminal offenses is unnecessary and nourishes misconceptions about culturally related crimes.

• Der Landbote (2014) «Napoleon» versteckte sich in der Kommode. In: Der Landbote online vom 20.3.2014. http://www.landbote.ch/detail/article/napoleon-versteckte-sich-in-der-kommode/gnews/99264820/

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