August 2006: August 1st – The Swiss National Day – A common incident

It becomes a tradition now the Swiss President being booed down by nationalist and skinheads from the Swiss National Party at the August 1 Swiss national holiday celebration on the historic plain of Rutli.Last year 800 Skinheads completely took over the national holiday celebration, according to all present.
The Swiss President's speech was interrupted after nearly each sentence by boos and insults of ''pig'' and ''Judas''. The President Samuel Schmid was red in the face with anger and he immediately ran out at the end of his speech, pushed along by his bodyguards.
The President did not even wait for the national anthem to be sung. When the assembly finally began to sing the national anthem it was completely drowned out by the 800 Skinheads who began singing at the same time the old Swiss national anthem ''Heil Dir Helvetia''.