Swiss Criminal Code

¹The court shall ex­pel for­eign na­tion­als from Switzer­land for a peri­od of 5-15 years if they are con­victed of any of the fol­low­ing of­fences, ir­re­spect­ive of the sen­tence im­posed:

a.

in­ten­tion­al hom­icide (Art. 111), murder (Art. 112), man­slaughter (Art. 113), in­cit­ing and as­sist­ing sui­cide (Art. 115), il­leg­al abor­tion (Art. 118 para. 1 and 2);

b.

ser­i­ous as­sault (Art. 122), fe­male gen­it­al mu­til­a­tion (Art. 124 para. 1), aban­don­ment (Art. 127), en­dan­ger­ing life (Art. 129), at­tack (Art. 134);

c.

ag­grav­ated mis­ap­pro­pri­ation (Art. 138 para. 2), ag­grav­ated theft (Art. 139 para. 2 and 3), rob­bery (Art. 140), fraud for com­mer­cial gain (Art. 146 para. 2), com­puter fraud for com­mer­cial gain (Art. 147 para. 2), mis­use of a cheque card or cred­it card for com­mer­cial gain (Art. 148 para. 2), ag­grav­ated ex­tor­tion (Art. 156 para. 2-4), prof­it­eer­ing for com­mer­cial gain (Art. 157 para. 2), hand­ling stolen goods for com­mer­cial gain (Art. 160 para. 2);

d.

theft (Art. 139) in con­junc­tion with un­law­ful entry (Art. 186);

e.

fraud (Art. 146 para. 1) re­lated to so­cial in­sur­ance or so­cial as­sist­ance, un­law­ful claims for so­cial in­sur­ance or so­cial as­sist­ance be­ne­fits (Art. 148a para. 1);

f.

fraud (Art. 146 para. 1), fraud in re­la­tion to ad­min­is­trat­ive ser­vices and charges (Art. 14 para. 1, 2 and 4 of the Fed­er­al Act of 22 March 1974² on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Crim­in­al Law) or tax fraud, mis­ap­pro­pri­ation of taxes de­duc­ted at source or any oth­er of­fence re­lated to pub­lic charges that car­ries a max­im­um pen­alty of a one-year cus­todi­al sen­tence or more;

g.

forced mar­riage, forced re­gistered part­ner­ship (Art. 181a), traf­fick­ing in hu­man be­ings (Art. 182), false im­pris­on­ment and ab­duc­tion (Art. 183), ag­grav­ated false im­pris­on­ment and ab­duc­tion (Art. 184), host­age tak­ing (Art. 185);

h.³

sexu­al acts with chil­dren (Art. 187 para. 1), in­de­cent as­sault (Art. 189), rape (Art. 190), sexu­al acts with per­sons in­cap­able of judge­ment or res­ist­ance (Art. 191), en­cour­aging pros­ti­tu­tion (Art. 195), por­no­graphy (Art. 197 para. 4 second sen­tence);

i.

ar­son (Art. 221 para. 1 and 2), wil­fully caus­ing an ex­plo­sion (Art. 223 para. 1 no 1), mis­use of ex­plos­ives and tox­ic gases with crim­in­al in­tent (Art. 224 para. 1), wil­fully caus­ing danger without crim­in­al in­tent (Art. 225 para. 1), man­u­fac­ture, con­ceal­ment and trans­port of ex­plos­ives and tox­ic gases (Art. 226), caus­ing danger by means of nuc­le­ar en­ergy, ra­dio­activ­ity and ion­ising ra­di­ation (Art. 226^bis), pre­par­at­ory of­fences (Art. 226^ter), wil­fully caus­ing a flood or col­lapse (Art. 227 para. 1 no 1), crim­in­al dam­age to elec­tric­al in­stall­a­tions, and hy­draul­ic or pro­tect­ive struc­tures (Art. 228 para. 1 no 1);

j.

wil­fully caus­ing danger by means of ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied or patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms (Art. 230^bis para. 1), wil­ful trans­mis­sion of hu­man dis­eases (Art. 231 para. 1), wil­ful con­tam­in­a­tion of drink­ing wa­ter (Art. 234 para. 1);

k.

ag­grav­ated dis­rup­tion of pub­lic traffic (Art. 237 para. 1 no 2), wil­ful dis­rup­tion of rail traffic (Art. 238 para. 1);

l.

acts pre­par­at­ory to the com­mis­sion of an of­fence (Art. 260^bis para. 1 and 3), par­ti­cip­a­tion in or sup­port for a crim­in­al or­gan­isa­tion (Art. 260^ter), en­dan­ger­ing pub­lic safety with weapons (Art. 260^quater), fin­an­cing ter­ror­ism (Art. 260^quin­quies);

m.^.

gen­o­cide (Art. 264), felon­ies against hu­man­ity (Art. 264a), ser­i­ous vi­ol­a­tions of the Geneva Con­ven­tions of 12 Au­gust 1949⁴ (Art. 264c), oth­er war crimes (Art. 264d-264h);

n.

wil­ful vi­ol­a­tions of Art­icle 116 para­graph 3 or Art­icle 118 para­graph 3 of the For­eign Na­tion­als Act of 16 Decem­ber 2005⁵;

o.

vi­ol­a­tion of Art­icle 19 para­graph 2 or 20 para­graph 2 of the Nar­cot­ics Act of 3 Oc­to­ber 1951⁶ (NarcA).

²The court may by way of ex­cep­tion re­frain from or­der­ing ex­pul­sion if it would cause ser­i­ous per­son­al hard­ship to the for­eign na­tion­al con­cerned and the pub­lic in­terest in ex­pul­sion does not out­weigh the private in­terest of the for­eign na­tion­al in re­main­ing in Switzer­land. In such cases, ac­count must be taken of the spe­cial po­s­i­tion of for­eign na­tion­als who were born or have grown up in Switzer­land.

³The court may also re­frain from or­der­ing ex­pul­sion if the of­fence was com­mit­ted in jus­ti­fi­able self-de­fence (Art. 16 para. 1) or in a jus­ti­fi­able situ­ation of ne­ces­sity (Art. 18 para. 1).