Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹The per­sons be­ing ques­tioned shall be ques­tioned sep­ar­ately.

²The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies may ar­range for per­sons, in­clud­ing those who have the right to re­fuse to give evid­ence, to con­front each oth­er. The spe­cial rights of the vic­tim are re­served.

³They may re­quire per­sons who have been ques­tioned who will prob­ably be re­quired to con­front oth­er per­sons after the con­clu­sion of the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing to re­main at the place of the pro­ceed­ings un­til the con­front­a­tion hear­ing is held.

⁴The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may tem­por­ar­ily ex­clude a per­son from the hear­ing if:

a.

there is a con­flict of in­terest; or

b.

the per­son must still be ques­tioned in the pro­ceed­ings as a wit­ness, a per­son provid­ing in­form­a­tion or as an ex­pert wit­ness.