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    Zurich official ousted for racist comments

    A politician in the canton of Zurich has been removed from office for racist comments.

    Urs Wagner was the president of the muncipial parliament of Opfikon, but the Zurich cantonal parliament dismissed him following racist comments he made in his Swiss National Day speech on August 1.

    Wagner said that in order to keep “Switzerland’s culture of white men” it “must refuse the establishment of non-whites in the European territory.”

    After his party, the Liberal Greens, tried in vain to extract a formal apology and his resignation, the Zurich government fired him.

    Wagner will, however, remain on Zurich’s cantonal parliament.

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