OLAF (Organization to solve the foreigner question)

The project consisted of the creation of the "Organization to solve the foreigner question" and series of actions and pranks performed by the fictitious representatives, Dr. Alois B. Stocher and his assistant George Klein.

As Heusser and Nüssli explained in a TV interview, the goal was to use the means of art to create a "counterweight to the xenophobic, million-dollar campaign" of the Swiss People's Party.

Superficially OLAF appeared to be a partner organization of the nationalist Swiss People's Party (SVP), which wanted to automatically expel all criminal foreigners through its deportation initiative.

The vote was prepared by the SVP with the controversial Black-Sheep-Campaign and a suggestive survey of the Swiss population which led to accusations of inciting xenophobia and violating international law.

[16] For a long time the project was deliberately kept anonymous in order to achieve a stronger political impact,[17] until Andreas Heusser was involuntarily outed by a tabloid newspaper.