Swiss Green MP Jonas Fricker will leave Parliament at the beginning of the winter on November 27 after he compared the treatment of transported pigs to Auschwitz victims in a speech last Thursday.
“This comparison was hurtful and unfortunate,” Fricker wrote in a letter to his party on Saturday night. He added that he considered the Holocaust as a crime without comparison.
Fricker added that his apologies had been accepted both by the Director of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities Jonathan Kreutner and the head of the Baden community Josef Bollag.
“Resigning my mandate to parliament is the strongest signal that I can send,” Fricker wrote, adding that it was based on the fact that his comments could be interpreted as antisemitic or scornful towards Jews.
