Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Domestic killings shock Swiss - BBC News
Corinne Rey-Bellet was shot by her husband Gerold Stadler just days after the couple had agreed to separate.
Stadler also shot and killed Rey-Bellet's brother Alain, and seriously wounded her mother, before finally killing himself.
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"There is a profile for a man who commits a crime like this," says Philip Jaffe, professor of psychology at Geneva University.
"He tends to be very ambitious, but isolated, very contained, and he can't cope with loss. So if his wife threatens to leave him, his response is violence."
All the recent cases, including that of Rey-Bellet and Stadler, involved families who presented an outward appearance of normal, calm, orderly family life.
"Here in Switzerland we are brought up to expect everything to go according to plan," he explains.
"Just like our trains run on time, we've come to expect our lives to run to plan, and when they don't, we go wild."
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Mr Boess blames the Swiss army's policy of requiring Swiss men, who all have to do military service, to keep their guns and ammunition at home in case of an emergency call-up.
What that means is that nearly all Swiss men have a Sturmgewehr - an assault rifle - stored somewhere in their homes. ...
"It's very common to hear women tell how their husbands remind them they have a gun in moments of tension," says Brigitte Schnegg, professor of gender politics at Berne University.
"They'll say: 'If you don't do what I want, don't forget I've got my gun upstairs.'"
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"Family problems are seen as a defeat for the man, it all has to do with male honour." ...
Corinne Rey-Bellet was shot by her husband Gerold Stadler just days after the couple had agreed to separate.
Stadler also shot and killed Rey-Bellet's brother Alain, and seriously wounded her mother, before finally killing himself.
...
"There is a profile for a man who commits a crime like this," says Philip Jaffe, professor of psychology at Geneva University.
"He tends to be very ambitious, but isolated, very contained, and he can't cope with loss. So if his wife threatens to leave him, his response is violence."
All the recent cases, including that of Rey-Bellet and Stadler, involved families who presented an outward appearance of normal, calm, orderly family life.
"Here in Switzerland we are brought up to expect everything to go according to plan," he explains.
"Just like our trains run on time, we've come to expect our lives to run to plan, and when they don't, we go wild."
...
Mr Boess blames the Swiss army's policy of requiring Swiss men, who all have to do military service, to keep their guns and ammunition at home in case of an emergency call-up.
What that means is that nearly all Swiss men have a Sturmgewehr - an assault rifle - stored somewhere in their homes. ...
"It's very common to hear women tell how their husbands remind them they have a gun in moments of tension," says Brigitte Schnegg, professor of gender politics at Berne University.
"They'll say: 'If you don't do what I want, don't forget I've got my gun upstairs.'"
...
"Family problems are seen as a defeat for the man, it all has to do with male honour." ...
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