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		dgellow on March 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland No. The people you can see in the first picture aren't the diplomats themselves, it's just part of the tradition when welcoming country leaders. Watch the video, you will see that our current president has completely normal clothes.

andimm on March 19, 2021 [–]

They are called Bundesweibel, took me a while to find them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huissier https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibel_(Amtsdiener)

dgellow on March 19, 2021 | [–]

Et pour les romands: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huissier_(Suisse)

:)

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