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Swiss prosecutors demand 10 years for man accused of sexually abusing girls at camp, school
FILE - This Oct. 11, 1998 file photo shows the Aiglon College de Villars, Switzerland. A Swiss man has appeared in court accused of drugging and sexually abusing girls at a camp and the private boarding school in Switzerland. The unnamed man in his early sixties appeared at the district court in the southern town of Brig on Monday, June 27, 2011, to answer charges he molested some fifty girls between 1996 and his arrest in 2007. Prosecutors accuse him of breaking into the exclusive Alpine boarding school in 2000 and using a chloroform-like substance to drug three girls aged 15 and 16 before sexually abusing them. (AP Photo/Keystone, Fabrice Coffrini, File) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Prosecutors in Switzerland asked a court Monday to sentence a Swiss man to 10 years in prison for allegedly drugging and sexually abusing some 50 girls at a holiday camp and a private boarding school.
Prosecutors said the unidentified 62-year-old man from Bern carried out a string of sex attacks starting 1996, when he allegedly drugged girls at a holiday camp in the southern Swiss village of Fiesch before abusing them. Most of the victims were under the age of 16 at the time.
Authorities claim he committed similar acts elsewhere in the canton (state) Valais two years later.
DNA evidence also linked him to an incident at the exclusive Alpine boarding school Aiglon College de Villars in 2000, where he is alleged to have broken into a dormitory and used a chloroform-like substance to drug three girls aged 15 and 16 before sexually abusing them, prosecutors said.
The man was arrested in 2007 after allegedly committing another sex attack in the northwestern canton of Solothurn.
Prosecutors have charged him with attempted sexual acts with children and sexual acts with children, attempted sexual coercion and sexual coercion and attempted rape and rape.
Judges at the district court in Brig, where the trial is being held, are expected to take several weeks to reach a verdict.
The man was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1979 for committing similar offences in northern Switzerland.
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Frank Jordans contributed to this report from Geneva.
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