(Swiss Info) A district court in Switzerland has acquitted four defendants accused of inciting violence against the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The judge ruled that a controversial banner shown by protesters at a 2017 demonstration in the Swiss capital, Bern, had symbolic value and should not be taken as direct call to action.
The verdict was announced on Wednesday and it can still be appealed at a higher court.
The banner read “Kill Erdogan with his own weapons” and was brought to a demonstration by a fringe group of activists.
The main protest was organised by Kurdish groups and left-wing Swiss parties against the Turkish government, eight months after a failed coup against Erdogan.
