Key legal question
Whether the refusal to grant a provisional passport as an interim measure was lawful.
Extracted holding
The refusal was within the authority's discretion and did not amount to an abuse of discretion; the public interest in preventing evasion of criminal proceedings prevailed.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 6 AwG allows refusal when the applicant is wanted for an offence; a provisional passport serves only to remedy a temporary emergency and must not circumvent the rules on ordinary passports. The applicant was only entitled to a document enabling return to Switzerland.