{"id":66533,"date":"2019-11-27T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66533"},"modified":"2019-11-27T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T04:55:00","slug":"sri-lankan-envoy-to-switzerland-summoned-to-foreign-ministry-in-bern-over-abduction-and-threats-to-local-employee-at-colombo-switzerland-demands-an-immediate-and-complete-investigation-into-the-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66533","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Envoy to Switzerland Summoned to Foreign Ministry in Bern Over Abduction and Threats to Local Employee at Colombo Switzerland Demands “an immediate and complete investigation into the incident” says Ministry Spokesman Pierre-Alain Eltschinger."},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA local employee of the Swiss embassy in Sri Lanka has been temporarily kidnapped and threatened by unknown assailants in what the foreign ministry has called a \u201cserious and unacceptable attack\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Sri Lanka news website lankanewsweb.netexternal link, the woman was kidnapped on Monday then held and questioned for two hours before being released.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Swiss foreign ministry confirmed the incident and told swissinfo.ch in a written statement that the woman was threatened in order to force her to disclose \u201cembassy-related information\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwitzerland promptly reported the incident to the Sri Lankan authorities and is demanding an immediate and complete investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident,\u201d wrote ministry spokesman Pierre-Alain Eltschinger.<\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan ambassador to Switzerland has also been summoned to the foreign ministry in Bern, he added.<\/p>\n

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The foreign ministry did not say what the perpetrators were looking for. lankanewsweb.net reported that the attack was in connection with a high-ranking Sri Lankan police inspector who \u2013 according to a report in the Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitungexternal link \u2013 has fled to Switzerland due to death threats.<\/p>\n

According to the NZZ, the inspector had been investigating corruption and rights violations in connection with the entourage of newly-elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He left Sri Lanka on Sunday, the newspaper reported, and has requested asylum in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The State Secretariat for Migration did not respond to a request by the Keystone news agency to confirm this, citing the protection of personal privacy for individuals.
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\nCourtesy:swissinfo.ch<\/em><\/p>\n

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A local employee of the Swiss embassy in Sri Lanka has been temporarily kidnapped and threatened by unknown assailants in what the foreign ministry has called a \u201cserious and unacceptable attack\u201d. According to the Sri Lanka news website lankanewsweb.netexternal link, the woman was kidnapped on Monday then held and questioned for two hours before being …<\/p>\n

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