How the police cleared an illegal party

The Zurich canton police commander Bruno Keller had actually only planned to thank his people for their work in the difficult Corona year. New Year’s Eve started quietly. But then everything turned out differently.

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The command is issued at midnight. There are around twenty police officers in the brightly lit entrance hall in the Volketswil community center, and the number is increasing. Their expressions are serious, they seem focused. A man is drawing a sketch with a black felt pen on a hastily brought up flipchart. It’s a civilian policeman. He knows his way around Volketswil.