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CEN Draft Reports Swiss Supreme Court Appeal In Nestlé Colombian Trade Union Murder Case

This 13 October 2014 CEN draft, headed “Nestle Face Swiss Trial Over Colombian Murder”, reports on an appeal to Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court seeking to overturn earlier Swiss decisions not to investigate Nestlé over the murder of Colombian trade union activist Luciano Romero. Romero, a former employee of Nestlé subsidiary Cicolac, was tortured and killed by paramilitaries in 2005 before he was due to travel to Europe to testify about Nestlé’s policies at the Permanent People’s Tribunal. The draft sets out the argument advanced by Romero’s widow, Sinaltrainal, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and Swiss lawyers that Nestlé executives should be investigated because they allegedly failed to act despite being aware of threats against him and concerns about local company representatives in Colombia. The document is significant because it shows CEN producing serious international public-interest reporting on corporate accountability, labour rights and alleged links between multinational business operations and political violence. The story deals with Swiss legal procedure, Colombian paramilitary killings, trade union rights, statute-barred prosecution issues, corporate responsibility for overseas subsidiaries and attempts to test a new Swiss legal route for holding companies accountable for harm abroad. In the wider evidence chain, it helps counter the later reduction of CEN’s work to bizarre or viral stories by documenting detailed reporting on a complex cross-border human-rights case involving Nestlé, Colombia, Switzerland and murdered labour activists. This appears to be the same or near-identical Nestlé draft as the previous CEN_0005689 item, so it may be worth distinguishing the two records by file number or treating one as a duplicate copy if both are retained in the Source Library.

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