The movement to occupy empty buildings which started in Geneva in the 1970s was part of a trend in cities all over the western world - New York, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. Squatters wanted to create an alternative lifestyle.
Geneva had nearly 160 buildings and more than 2,000 squatters at the height of the movement in the middle of the 1990s. There are now only 26 squats.

Das Rhino in Genf geräumt!:  http://ch.indymedia.org/demix/2007/07/51259.shtml

Eviction of Squat La Tour, Geneva, Switzerland:  http://www.all4all.org/2007/07/3187.shtml

July 23, 2007: Geneva's historic Rhino squat evicted:  http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/top_news/detail/Geneva_s_historic_Rhino_squat_evicted.html?siteSect=106&sid=8048017

 http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/top_news/detail/End_of_the_road_for_Geneva_s_squats.html?siteSect=106&sid=8037888

Rhino in November 2005: Historic squat battles to avoid extinction:  http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/top_news/detail/Historic_squat_battles_to_avoid_extinction.html?siteSect=106&sid=6211788

 http://ch.indymedia.org/fr/2007/07/50887.shtml

La fine di un centro sociale: il "Rhino" viene evacuato:  http://ch.indymedia.org/frmix/2007/07/51336.shtml