Switzerland is tougher on violent migrants than Germany is — the culture-enricher who attacked her caseworker with a billhook may see as much as 18 years in the slammer. This is in contrast with the asylum seeker in Brandenburg who actually killed his wife and will serve a sentence of no more than 13 years.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from the Swiss news site Tages-Anzeiger:

Refugee carer blinded in one eye by knife attack June 7, 2017 An asylum seeker wounded a carer gravely with a so-called gertel [billhook]. Now the African woman is charged with attempted murder. It is hard to imagine what the 28-year-old refugee carer went through. A resident of the transition centre for asylum seekers in Embrach struck the head and upper body of the carer about twenty times with a so-called gertel, a machete-like garden knife, on November 18, 2015. The young Swiss woman suffered injuries to her eyes and has been completely blinded in one eye. The reason for the attack: the asylum seeker was supposed to leave the transition centre and move to a different centre in the canton. The accused is a 36-year-old woman from Ivory Coast. As an undocumented immigrant, she applied at the Bund in June 2013 for asylum, which was denied. She was expected to leave Switzerland in November 2014, but resisted departure repeatedly. At the time of the deed, she was living in the Embrach transition centre. She was supposed to move to the Adliswil emergency shelter for families and solitary women. The African refused, in spite of daily talks with the team of carers. Resisting departure On noon of November 18, 2015, the carer went to see the African in her room. She did not make a move to pack her belongings, but said that her stomach hurt and that she was unable to leave. When the carer offered to help her pack, the accused suddenly walked to the door and locked it. According to the bill of indictment, she then got a gertel with a 30 cm long, curved, and very sharp blade from the closet. She walked towards the carer and hit her head several times. The woman collapsed and fell to the ground. “At that point, the accused lunged at the victim and chopped relentlessly and with great force about twenty times on the head, upper body, and extremities of the victim,” the bill of indictment says. The victim suffered grave injuries to head and upper body. Her left eye is completely blind. Her face is badly disfigured from the scars, and she lost three teeth.