Published January 5, 2024 at 11:04 am. / Edited January 5, 2024 at 12:17 pm.
From the entrepreneur Nicolas Hayek to the politician Nuria Gorrite up to “our” Roger Federer, immigration has fueled the development of modern Switzerland. During the holidays, Le Temps paints a portrait of 11 personalities who embody multiculturalism with a Swiss touch.
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From one day to the next, leaving the warmth of a home in Cali and finding ourselves in the anonymity of a collective reception center in Brig. It’s hard to imagine a more radical change of environment for a 6-year-old. This is what Leon David Salazar experienced when his family fled Colombia to seek political asylum in Switzerland. The beginning of a new life for the man who, having become an actor, multiplies roles on the small and big screen. We have seen this in particular in the RTS series Sacha et Minor crimesbut also in Valentin Merz’s film At night the cats are brown or even inside Little sisterby Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond.
“It was difficult at the time. I didn’t understand why we had to abandon everything, our home, our family, to go to a distant country where we didn’t know anyone,” recalls Leon David Salazar, the youngest of three brothers. A trade unionist, involved in the political opposition in the 1990s, his father nevertheless made this decision to distance his family from a country full of tensions, where dissenting voices represent a great risk.
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2024-01-05 10:04:56
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