'A full-time job': How a self-proclaimed swiss king's 'empire' is riling local authorities
Jonas Lauwiner was widely dismissed as an eccentric when he held a coronation and crowned himself king of Switzerland in 2019. Since then, he has used a loophole in Swiss law to acquire a 117,000-square-metre “land empire”, but local authorities are...
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Jonas Lauwiner was widely dismissed as an eccentric when he held a coronation and crowned himself king of Switzerland in 2019. Since then, he has used a loophole in Swiss law to acquire a 117,000-square-metre “land empire”, but local authorities are keen to stop him in his tracks.
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