The town of Moutier wakes up Jura-style on January 1

At 6 a.m. on Thursday morning, the streets were almost deserted, as a journalist from the Keystone-SDA news agency noted. Only a few people were still chatting on the town hall square, which served as the central meeting point for the celebrations. With the Jura flag on his shoulders, a young man strolled through the town in the freezing cold.

The streets of the old town looked like the scene of a festival: garbage, plastic cups, champagne bottles and the remains of firecrackers and rockets bore witness to Moutier's entry into the canton of Jura.