Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies shall safe­guard the per­son­al pri­vacy of the vic­tim at every stage of the pro­ceed­ings.

² The vic­tim may be ac­com­pan­ied at all pro­ced­ur­al hear­ings by a con­fid­ant in ad­di­tion to his or her leg­al agent.

³ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies shall en­sure that the vic­tim does not en­counter the ac­cused if the vic­tim so re­quests. In such a case, they shall take ac­count of the ac­cused's right to be heard in some oth­er way. In par­tic­u­lar, they may ques­tion the vic­tim while ap­ply­ing pro­tect­ive meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 149 para­graph 2 let­ters b and d.

⁴ A con­front­a­tion hear­ing may be ordered if:

a.

the ac­cused's right to be heard can­not be guar­an­teed in any oth­er way; or

b.

the hear­ing is es­sen­tial for the pur­pose of the pro­sec­u­tion.