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A video shows how the quarrel escalates in a residential building in Basel: Ten hooded persons forcibly gain access to an apartment, handcuffing and gagging the family of five living in it. The children are very small, walk partly naked through the apartment and scream scared. The camera that records the whole thing goes unnoticed.
The intruders are, according to Tele Basel Linksautonomes, the incident took place on March 20, 2016. According to the report, the woman and the man who live in the flat are a Russian artist couple who have performed state-critical performances in their homeland.
They had co-founded the artist collective Woina (Russian for war) and have since been politically persecuted. For this reason, the family had used an invitation from the Cabaret Voltaire and had fled to Switzerland.