Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies may ques­tion the ac­cused at any stage of the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings in re­la­tion to the of­fences of which he or she is ac­cused.

² In do­ing so, they shall give the ac­cused the op­por­tun­ity to make a com­pre­hens­ive state­ment in re­la­tion to these of­fences.