Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ At the start of the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing, the per­son be­ing ques­tioned shall, in a lan­guage they can un­der­stand:

a.

be asked for his or her per­son­al de­tails;

b.

be ad­vised of the sub­ject mat­ter of the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and of the ca­pa­city in which he or she is be­ing in­ter­viewed;

c.

be in­formed in full of his or her rights and ob­lig­a­tions.

² A note must be made in the re­cord that the pro­vi­sions of para­graph 1 have been com­plied with.

³ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity may make fur­ther en­quir­ies in re­la­tion to the iden­tity of the per­son be­ing ques­tioned.

⁴ It shall in­vite the per­son be­ing ques­tioned to com­ment on the sub­ject mat­ter of the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing.

⁵ It shall en­deav­our by means of clearly for­mu­lated ques­tions and con­ten­tions to ob­tain com­pre­hens­ive state­ments and to cla­ri­fy any con­tra­dic­tions.

⁶ The per­son be­ing ques­tioned shall make his or her state­ment on the basis of his or her re­col­lec­tions. He or she may make use of writ­ten doc­u­ments with the con­sent of the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings; these doc­u­ments shall be ad­ded to the case doc­u­ments on con­clu­sion of the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing.

⁷ Per­sons with speech or hear­ing dif­fi­culties shall be ques­tioned in writ­ing or with the as­sist­ance of a suit­ably qual­i­fied per­son.