Key legal question
Whether alleged defects in the French translation of the German request required a new translation or blocked assistance.
Extracted holding
No. A translation is not mandatory when the request is submitted in an official Swiss language; inaccuracies in a non-required translation do not invalidate assistance.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 28 para. 5 EIMP and Switzerland's reservation to Art. 16(2) ECHR/CEEJ, the request only had to be in French, German, or Italian. Double criminality is assessed on the facts, not the foreign legal characterization.