Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
45
Cases Prosecuted
-
Cases Recorded by Police
159
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Figures consist of hate crimes committed in public, of crimes of incitement to hatred and crimes involving discrimination. As such, many of incidents listed here fall outside the scope of the OSCE’'s hate crime definition of a hate crime. A breakdown of sentencing judgments by bias motivation was reported to ODIHR.
The figure for sentenced cases was updated in October 2024 as per the official request to reflect the changes in the official statistics.
The figure for sentenced cases was updated in October 2024 as per the official request to reflect the changes in the official statistics.
Intro for the official data graphs
A breakdown by bias motivation is available for all discrimination cases but not for hate crimes. People of African descent were the most targeted group, followed by crimes motivated by bias against Muslims. Actual hate crime cases, which are presented here, are therefore only broken down by type of crime.
ODIHR Recommendations
ODIHR observes that Switzerland has not reported on hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech or discrimination.