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The Dijon Free Brigade grew into prominence after splitting from the Judean People's Front.

Quote:Swiss war game envisages invasion by bankrupt French

Hordes of bankrupt French invade Switzerland to get their hands on their "stolen" money such is the imaginary scenario cooked up by the Swiss military in simulations revealed over the weekend.

[Image: swiss_2687601b.jpg]The current number of recruits in the Swiss army stands at around 155, 000 the biggest army in Europe relative to population size. Photo: AFP/GETTY








By Henry Samuel, Paris

11:51AM BST 30 Sep 2013


Carried out in August, the apparently outlandish army exercise was based on the premise of an attack by a financially stricken France split into warring regions, according to Matin Dimanche, the Lausanne-based daily.

One of these, "Saônia," corresponding to the existing Jura region, was preparing attacks on Switzerland to retrieve money it had apparently swiped from France.

Operation "Duplex-Barbara" went as far as imagining a three-pronged invasion from points near Neufchâtel, Lausanne and Geneva, according to a map published in the Swiss newspaper.

Behind the dastardly raid was a paramilitary organisation dubbed BLD, the Dijon Free Brigade bent on grabbing back "money that Switzerland had stolen from Saônia".

"For its credibility, the Swiss army must work (to ward against) threats of the 21st century," Antoine Vielliard, Hauate-Savoie councillor, told Matin Dimanche.

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However, Daniel Berger, captain of the Swiss armoured brigade, sought to play down the specificity of the threat.
"The exercise has strictly nothing to do with France, which we appreciate" he told the Swiss press. "It was prepared in 2012, when fiscal relations between both countries were less tense." "French towns were cited to provide soldiers with a real scale," he said.
Famous for its bank secrecy laws, Switzerland often comes under criticism for allowing foreign account holders to hide their wealth from tax officials at home.
But these opaque laws are coming under increasing fire as France and the US, among others, are cracking down on tax evasion during a period of economic hardship.
This is by no means the first imaginary scenario dreamed up by the Swiss army. Last year, it carried out an exercise based on the premise that a huge wave of refugees crossed into the country after the implosion of the European Single Currency and ensuing chaos across the continent.
"Stabilo Due" centered around a risk map created in 2010 and envisaged internal unrest between warring factions as well as the possibility of refugees from Greece, Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal.
Warning of an escalation of violence in Europe, defense minister Ueli Maurer said at the time: "I can't exclude that in the coming years we may need the army." The military is a hot topic in Switzerland, which has mandatory military service. Under Swiss law, all able-bodied men at age 19 have to undergo five months of training, followed by refresher courses of several weeks over the next decade.
A referendum held a week ago saw a large majority of Swiss voters reject plans to abolish conscription.
The current number of recruits stands at around 155, 000 the biggest army in Europe relative to population size.
Some 73.2 per cent of Swiss said "no" to proposals by the anti-military group, Group for a Switzerland Without an Army, to have either a professional army or one made up of volunteers.
Neutral Switzerland has not been invaded since the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century.
Recent scholars have questioned the belief that the Swiss military's complex of underground bunkers deterred an invasion by the Nazis during the Second World War.
Some historians argued that Adolf Hitler left the Swiss alone because he wanted to use their banks.


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I wonder how they will run their dirty wars from the US with the government shut down? But of course, no one will get their Social Security check or other benefits but they will find a way to pay for the fucking wars. They always do.
I am doing my best to ignore the mess in Washington DC. To them it is all a game. For one thing shutting down the government will not stop Obamacare, which goes into effect today.
Disaster looms. Especially for those who will refuse to buy this Insurance". Huge fines. To finance more filthy wars.

Dawn
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