High-altitude hotel-restaurant in Davos refuses to rent winter sports equipment to Jewish tourists. Police open investigation into suspicion of “discrimination and incitement to hatred’ The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (FSCI) will file a complaint.
In 2017, another hotel in the resort of Arosa put up a poster asking its Jewish guests to shower before entering the swimming pool, triggering a lively controversy in Israel. According to an article published in August by the local newspaper Davoser Zeitung, between 3,000 and 4,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews vacationed in DavOS last summer.