Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ At the start of the first in­ter­view, the po­lice or pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall ad­vise the ac­cused in a lan­guage that he or she un­der­stands:

a.

that pre­lim­in­ary pro­ceed­ings have been com­menced against him or her, and of the of­fences that are the sub­ject of the pro­ceed­ings;

b.

that he or she is en­titled to re­main si­lent and may re­fuse to co­oper­ate in the pro­ceed­ings;

c.

that he or she is en­titled to ap­point a de­fence law­yer or if ap­pro­pri­ate to re­quest the as­sist­ance of a duty de­fence law­yer;

d.

that he or she may re­quest the as­sist­ance of an in­ter­pret­er.

² Evid­ence ob­tained at an ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing con­duc­ted without the fore­go­ing cau­tion is in­ad­miss­ible.