Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall or­der the re­open­ing of pro­ceed­ings that have been aban­doned by a leg­ally-bind­ing rul­ing if it ob­tains new evid­ence or in­form­a­tion that:

a.

in­dic­ates that the ac­cused is guilty of a crim­in­al of­fence; and

b.

does not res­ult from the pre­vi­ous files.

² It shall give no­tice of the re­open­ing of pro­ceed­ings to the per­sons and au­thor­it­ies that pre­vi­ously re­ceived no­tice of the aban­don­ment.