In social networks and on entertainment sites, a photo of a woman who sits with a laptop in striped clothes in a room with a barred window is popular. We checked whether the heroine of the picture is really serving a sentence in prison in Switzerland.
The photo shows a small room with a table, a chair and a bed. On the table is a phone and, presumably, a TV. A girl with a laptop in a characteristic striped uniform sits on the bed - to the color of the curtains on a window equipped with a grate. The signature for the photo reads: “No, this is not a hotel. This is a conclusion camera in a Swiss prison. ” Often, the picture is extended along with the screenshot of two comments: the author of the first asks the question why on the window window (“Anyway no one wants to escape”), and the author of the other explains that they are not needed to prevent escape, and so that no one would climb into such a comfortable prison.
The photo was published by users of entertainment sites ("Picabu","YaPlakal","Aidaprikol") And social networks. One of the posts in FacebookPlaced in April 2025, collected more than 2500 reposts.
The main reason for the viral distribution of photography is unusually comfortable conditions for prison conclusion that people do not see in many countries in ordinary life. But is there really such a soft regime in Swiss prisons?
Criminal Code of Switzerland It does not contain any details on this issue, and the legislation of each canton and even the rules of individual prisons have their own characteristics. So, in the cantons Zurich And St. Gallen Prisoners can rent a TV and even a computer, but bringing their digital equipment to the camera or installing additional programs on the issued laptop. At the same time, by data In 2024, the Swiss prisoners have no free Internet access. In addition, the civilized world has long abandoned the black and white striped uniform-it was called To brand a criminal, and at the same time help to catch him in case of escape. Nowadays, Switzerland adheres to UN standards, who say that prison clothes should not humiliate and should be comfortable. In many prisons The prisoners are allowed to wear their clothes, otherwise the leadership prefers to give out a plain uniform of calm flowers. The style of clothing on a girl with a viral photo also looks unusual - a topic instead of traditional shirts with a long or short sleeve.
Reverse search for pictures in Google allows you to detect a viral photo in numerous Collections hotels that used to be prisons. Such hotels are not uncommon in Western countries, where the crime rate fell And the content of numerous penitentiary institutions became unprofitable. So it happened with prison In the German Kaiserslautern, which was founded in 1877, and in the fall of 2002 she closed (or opened) her doors for prisoners. Three years later, the building with 150 cameras was acquired by lawyer Michael Coll, and three years later a hotel with a not very German, but well -known world is the name Alcatraz, began to work here.
The hotel is named after the famous Alkatratus prison on the island near the coast of San Francisco, among its prisoners was, for example, Al Capone. An old one is parked near the hotel Citroenresembling Cadillac overseas gangster.
On the hotel website in Gallery You can see a viral photo along with other personnel with the same model. Night in the room "Element" It will cost Visitor at € 70.
Thus, in a viral photo is not a camera at all in a Swiss prison, but a room in a German hotel opened in the building of the former penitentiary institution. With an incorrect signature It spreads At least since 2019. At the same time, Switzerland is really known as a country with fairly comfortable prisons, so in the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet previously became viral and genuine photos And video with a similar signature, up to the same comic comments (However, in the latter case, they discussed a picture of the Swedish hotel).
Photo on the cover: alcatraz-hotel.com
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