Daniele Ganser

“Research on The Collapse of WTC7 in Switzerland: Why Is It So Difficult?”

As a historian in Switzerland I have been interested in the collapse of WTC7 for many years. In September 2006 I published an article in the Swiss daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger and publicly asked the question: Was WTC7, which was not hit by a plane, destroyed by controlled demolition – or by fire, which is the official explanation. In that article I quoted Swiss experts on the subject, such as: “In my opinion the building WTC 7 was, with great probability, professionally demolished,” said Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH-Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction. Likewise, Jörg Schneider, also Emeritus ETH-Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the available video recordings as evidence that “the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished.” I insisted in that article that we need a public debate about this important question. Yet the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich where I was employed and researched urged me not to work on this issue. Under pressure I left ETH Zurich and moved to the history department of Basel University, while different journalists tried to discredit me with smear campaigns. Later I taught at University of St. Gallen but in 2017 was attacked on the Swiss Television program Arena by Swiss journalists for questioning the official explanation of the collapse of WTC7. In my Presentation I explore the question: “Why is it so difficult to research WTC7 in neutral Switzerland?”





