A/72/291 remains a driving force for those movements. It should be noted that the extreme right groups in Switzerland benefit directly from the shortcomings of criminal law. The organization has stressed that Swiss law permits, with impunity, the existence of racist parties, the dissemination and sale of Nazi artefacts and the organization of neo-Nazi rallies and concerts. 61. The mobilization of Coordination intercommunautaire contre l’antisémitisme et la diffamation to defend the rights of victims of anti -Semitism has inherent limitations. It is difficult to combat the neo-Nazi, extremist, right-wing movements in Switzerland. The anti-racism norm in federal legislation does not allow the association to intervene in legal proceedings and it is regrettable that the Federal Council refused, in 2010, to add a penal norm to prohibit the wearing of Nazi and racist signs, as the organization wished. The organization stressed that it is imperative that the federal, cantonal and municipal authorities underst and the importance of the issue. To date, the confederation has not yet developed a national strategy for the protection of religious communities. 62. With regard to the denial of the Holocaust, the organization has reported that a disturbing number of articles and remarks have been broadcasted in Frenchlanguage media in Switzerland in 2016; 20 per cent of those recorded deny the facts, scope, mechanisms or intention of the genocide of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany. They are regularly published on the Internet, notably on blogs and websites, but also in so-called “independent periodicals”. In the galaxy of negation in French-speaking areas of Switzerland in 2016, there remained several actors, known and active for decades, who have been previously condemned for their anti-Semitic and denialist remarks. B. Dostoevsky Institute 63. The Dostoevsky Institute in Athens informed the Special Rapporteur about the rise of xenophobic and racist phenomena in Greece in 2016, with a total of 95 reported incidents of racist violence, involving more than 130 victims. According to the Institute, 31 of the 95 incidents were targeted at migrants or refugees, owing to their national or ethnic origin, religion or skin colour. An additional incident was targeted at the staff of humanitarian organizations in a care c entre for refugees, and another at a journalist covering the refugee crisis, according to the Institute. The Institute indicated that an appeals court of first instance in Piraeus had upheld a decision of November 2016, in which four men had been found gui lty of abducting, robbing and causing serious injuries to an Egyptian migrant in 2012. 64. The Institute also provided an account of xenophobic attacks perpetrated by Greek extremist groups. The Institute indicated that, in July 2016, a squat in Athens in which refugees had been sheltering was intentionally set alight by members of a far-right group, who had not been identified as at December 2016. The Institute has noted that far-right activists have been suspected of having attacked refugees in the Souda camp on Chios Island, injuring at least two of them, and a criminal investigation into the incident has been launched. The trial of leaders and members of the far-right neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn who had been charged for the founding of a criminal organization and the murder of Pavlos Fyssas in 2013 was ongoing, as at December 2016. 65. The Institute has noted that there have been xenophobic incidents following a legislative provision adopted by the Greek parliament in August 2016, which had created special classes for about 580 children who were refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Athens and Thessaloniki. It was reported that, in the Greek municipalities of 14/21 17-13411

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