Parc de La Perle du Lac

About this audio guide

This guide to the Parc de la Perle du Lac in Geneva follows a single night, the early hours of August the twelfth, 2017, just after a Fetes de Geneve fireworks finale, when a twenty-one-year-old Genevan and his pregnant girlfriend were stopped by a group of strangers asking for a cigarette. It traces how an ordinary refusal turned into a street confrontation, who was arrested the next day, and what the case revealed about the park's usual summer nights versus that one. Best heard along the lakeside lawns near where the fireworks crowds still gather.