'A full&time job': How a self&proclaimed Swiss king's 'empire' is riling local authorities

Jonas Lauwiner was widely dismissed as an eccentric when he crowned himself king of Switzerland in 2019 and used a loophole in Swiss law to acquire a 117,000-square-metre “land empire”. Lauwiner tells FRANCE 24 that the local authorities who are keen to stop him are just jealous they didn't think of it first. 

'A full&time job': How a self&proclaimed Swiss king's 'empire' is riling local authorities
Jonas Lauwiner was widely dismissed as an eccentric when he crowned himself king of Switzerland in 2019 and used a loophole in Swiss law to acquire a 117,000-square-metre “land empire”. Lauwiner tells FRANCE 24 that the local authorities who are keen to stop him are just jealous they didn't think of it first.