Jura question Jura government wants to return stolen place name signs
The Jura government wants to return the place name signs stolen from the Bernese Jura to the canton of Bern. The plaques were stolen at the end of February and were deposited by the Béliers in front of the parliament in Delsberg on Sunday.
24.06.2024, 15:29
SDA
In a statement on Monday, the Jura government expressed its surprise at the action. It had no knowledge of it. It had contacted the canton of Bern in order to quickly organize the return of the plaques.
The cantonal government regrets the message of the stolen plaques and recalled that by signing the so-called Moutier Concordat, it had committed itself to putting an institutional end to the Jura issue. The concordat is a kind of transfer agreement between the cantons of Bern and Jura, which regulates the modalities of the change of canton for the municipality of Moutier.
At the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, the Bernese cantonal government made no comment. It had taken note of the communication from the Jura authorities, according to the Office for Communication.
Action by the Béliers
On the fringes of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Jura referendum, the Béliers had placed the missing place-name signs of 37 municipalities in the Bernese Jura in front of the Jura parliament building. "This is just the beginning, let's continue the fight," the young separatists had chanted.
"We received these plaques anonymously, they were a gift," said the leader of the Béliers, Jonathan Gosteli, on Sunday. For the activists, the Jura issue is not closed. Gosteli said that the interests of the Bernese Jura population lie in the canton of Jura.
Reactions in the social networks
The Béliers' action sparked an outcry on social networks: "This sad spectacle of thieves displaying their loot is disgusting," wrote SVP National Councillor Manfred Bühler from the Bernese Jura on Facebook, for example, adding that he would reject the Moutier Concordat in the vote in the Federal Assembly.
