Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The in­dict­ment shall in­dic­ate:

a.

the place and the date;

b.

the pub­lic pro­sec­utor bring­ing the charges;

c.

the court com­pet­ent to hear the charges;

d.

the ac­cused and his or her de­fence law­yer;

e.

the per­son suf­fer­ing harm;

f.

as briefly but pre­cisely as pos­sible: the acts that the ac­cused is al­leged to have com­mit­ted with de­tails of the locus, date, time, nature and con­sequences of their com­mis­sion;

g.

the of­fences that are in the opin­ion of the pub­lic pro­sec­utor con­sti­tuted by these acts with de­tails of the ap­plic­able stat­utory pro­vi­sions.

² The pub­lic pro­sec­utor may bring al­tern­at­ive charges or sec­ond­ary charges for the event that the main charges are dis­missed.