Germany had its Baader-Meinhof gang, Italy its Red Brigade, Britain the IRA and Switzerland Les Béliers. These separatists wanted Jura, then part of Canton Bern, to be a separate canton, but this being Switzerland there were no car bombs or assassinations. The battle was fought with the ballot box not with bullets, though it was sometimes accompanied by riots and petrol bombs. It took a while, and a few referenda, but in 1979 Jura finally became the newest canton.13 That means its 70,000 inhabitants make up the last section of Swiss Path before it ends in Brunnen, the town at the junction of
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