Because the Swiss government needs money for pensions and defense, savings are made. Among other things, at the Museum of the Red Cross, which is now threatened by the closure. A visit to Geneva, where the international institutions are currently doing the collar.
There is a burned and weathered tricycle in the foyer. The handlebar is bent, the struts are as fragile as if they were only held together from the rust. Why is that here, in the Museum of the Red Cross and Red Half moon in Geneva? “The tricycle belonged to a little boy named Shinichi Tetsutani,” explains Pascal Hufschmid, the director of the museum. “He was playing with his favorite toy on the morning of August 6, 1945 when an atomic bomb died in the sky above his city. He died later on that day, and his parents buried him in their garden. With his tricycle.”