Parent fined for gun in school

Friday, 25 August 2023 06:30

A parent has been fined after she left a pellet gun – which resembled a real gun – in her son’s backpack when he went to school in canton Fribourg.

She says she bought the gun in a toy store while on vacation in Kosovo – and didn’t believe it was such a big issue.

But it gave the boy’s teacher a shock when she came across it while on a school trip to France.

The court ruled it wasn’t been kept properly and had been illegally imported into Switzerland.

The mother was fined CHF 400 and the gun destroyed.

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