Swiss Police Catch 86-Year-Old Spraying Graffiti at SNB Site
- Woman was participating in a political protest in Bern
- Group wants to forbid SNB from holding defense company shares
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Police briefly took an 86-year-old woman into custody for spray painting a slogan on a wall at the Swiss National Bank’s headquarters in Bern, according to authorities.
Her action on Tuesday was in support of a political campaign by an anti-army group to ban SNB from holding shares in companies that make weapons. Popular initiatives are commonplace in Switzerland, and the new measure follows an unsuccessful campaign in 2014 to force it to hold a portion of its assets in gold.