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Events from 2013 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

Federal Council:
- Doris Leuthard
- Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
- Ueli Maurer (President)
- Didier Burkhalter
- Johann Schneider-Ammann
- Simonetta Sommaruga
- Alain Berset

Events

2 January – A man opens fire on people in the village of Daillon, Valais, killing 3 and wounding 2.
27 February – A man opens fire at a wood-processing plant in Menznau killing 5 people, including the shooter.
September – By popular referendum approved by 66% of the voters, the canton of Ticino prohibited to hide the face in a public area. it become the first canton in Switzerland to ban it.

Deaths

16 May – Heinrich Rohrer, physicist (born 1933)

See also

Public holidays in Switzerland

References

"Switzerland gunman kills three in Daillon in Valais". BBC News. 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
"Death toll from Swiss Menznau shooting rises to five". The Independent. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
Squires, Nick (23 September 2013). "Burkas and niqabs banned from Swiss canton". The Daily Telegraph. London.
"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 8 February 2024.

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