May
04
Are dozens of urns with human ashes in Swiss lake bed
The polls have thrown into the lake is illegal without a permit and the fact is calling attention to the more murky aspects of assisted suicide, which is allowed in Switzerland but is increasingly under public scrutiny.
Police would not say whether direct evidence linking the polls with Dignitas, a Swiss group in recent years has helped hundreds of people _ includin1000g U.S., British, German and franceses_ to kill themselves.
“That would be pure conjecture,” said Wolfgang Bollack, spokesman for the environmental department of Zurich.
But the U.S. magazine The Atlantic reported last month in an article in the burials made by Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli, who noted that stores the polls until they have enough to fill your car. Then throws them at night on Lake Zurich from a “quiet place between houses worth millions of dollars,” the magazine published.
Soraya Wernli, a former employee of Dignitas, in 2008 told a similar story of when he worked in the organization. He said polls in the discharge of the lake was not unusual, and noted that under the water were hundreds of them. Attempts to contact Wernli on Wednesday were unsuccessful.
The police investigation began last week after the accidental discovery of muddy orange polls by a group of divers looking for a sliding roof that fell from his boat near the extravagantly wealthy “Gold Coast” in Zurich.
Divers pulled from the water 13 containers with ashes, and called the police in Zurich, which later took another 22 ballot boxes in an effort to discourage diving tourists made for this purpose. It is believed that there”s more under water.
“We are trying to determine how the lake came the polls,” said Stefan Oberli, police spokesman.
Officially, the investigation of suspicious “strangers” has to do with illegal burials in the lake and the more serious crime of disturbing the sanctity of the dead. The second offense is punishable by up to three years in prison, but most likely will result in a fine.