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Naturalization in Arth: Now more and more details and questions are becoming known

View of the train station in Arth Goldau. Image: KEYSTONE

Naturalization antics in Arth – now more and more details and questions are becoming known

The Swiss makers in the Arth community are as grim as a wolf.

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The Italian knew that the only monarch in Switzerland was the Schwingerkönig. The naturalization authority of the Arth Goldau community noted in nine out of 20 questions about Swiss and local conditions: “I don’t know” or “I don’t know”. She assessed four answers as incomplete.

In the end, she denied the application for naturalization of the 51-year-old self-employed entrepreneur – partly because he did not know that the Goldau Bear Zoo and Wolf lived in the same enclosure (we reported). The federal court has now ordered naturalization. It rated the rejection as arbitrary that subtleties had no place in a naturalization process.

Further research by our newspaper for the hearing in June 2016 shows: In addition to detailed questions (what is the name of the newly opened retirement home in Arth?), The Swiss makers rubbed the plasterer and ice cream producer under the nose that they had not found any references to work in Arth – but the father of two did mentioned various projects, including work on the police building.

The naturalization authority was also irritated by the fact, according to the Italian’s wife, that her husband carried out many orders from outside the municipality and the canton. Finally, the candidate was faced with the accusation that he had insufficient contact with Swiss people.

The federal court countered that it contradicts any life experience that the Italian, who has been running a plasterer business since 2001, has no contacts with locals.

The Italian did not know that the bear in the Goldau zoo lives in the same enclosure as the wolf. Picture: AP / Keystone

Unjustly accused the candidate of a crime

The fact that the naturalization candidate did not know the first verse of the Swiss hymn, instead of alphorn saying “Schwyzerhorn”, that he was unfamiliar with the term “L trader” and that the common enclosure for bear and wolf was not aware of, may provide material for a satire at the expense of the Arther naturalization authority. What is less funny is the fact that the process was from the beginning under a bad star.

The Swiss makers on Lake Zug acted almost grimly like a wolf. This is revealed by a look at the judgments of the federal court on the Schwyz administrative court, which dealt with the case beforehand.

Originally, the whole family wanted to be naturalized. The older son withdrew his application after failing the state studies test. The naturalization authority refused not only the requests of the father, but also those of the wife and the younger son. She even reported the husband about a month after the ominous hearing for promoting illegal residence.

The background: he rented a room to an Italian. The Arther authorities sensed a sham domicile in it. However, the Innerschwyz public prosecutor found no evidence of illegal activity and did not investigate. The naturalization authority did not care. In a nutshell, she qualified the failure to act on the part of the public prosecutor as wrong.

She also accused the Italian of tax evasion for not correctly declaring a property in Calabria. The tax administration of the canton of Schwyz did not initiate criminal proceedings against him. The naturalization candidate had not concealed the property either.

Allegations vanish into thin air

The naturalization authority accused the wife of misconduct in temporarily receiving unemployment benefits. She did not correctly declare participation in her husband’s companies. The Office for Labor also refuted this objection and also attested to the wife that she was straightforward and not picky when looking for a job. The allegations against the couple all vanished; both have an impeccable reputation.

The Schwyz Administrative Court also came to this conclusion. The couple’s complaint was partially approved and instructed the naturalization authority to resume the naturalization process of the wife and minor son. Business is still pending, and the wife is still not in possession of the red passport.

By the way, she passed the test on Swiss and local conditions. She knew that the recently opened retirement home in Arth was called “Chriesigarte”, unlike her husband, she correctly defined the term “Röstigraben” and did not stumble over the bear and wolf question.

Mayor criticizes federal court

The Schwyzer administrative court found, however, that the community had justly refused to give the husband the red passport because of the incomplete knowledge of the local circumstances. The Federal Supreme Court found it unsustainable, however, to deny civil rights because of this “at most minor deficiency”. The man fulfills all other requirements.

Meanwhile, the Arther Mayor of Ruedi Beeler, who carried out the survey as President of the Naturalization Authority, was not very pleased with the “thick post” from Lausanne. The Federal Supreme Court literally demonstrated this, while the Administrative Court supported the assessment of the lack of local and cultural conditions.

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