Facts
The Turkish national X. was born in 1968 in A./ZH and grew up here. He was granted a settlement permit. Over the years, he repeatedly committed criminal offenses and was sentenced to custodial sentences, including for sexual acts with children, robbery, bodily harm, and violations of the Narcotics Act. Most recently, he was sentenced in 2009 to a custodial sentence of three years for attempted intentional homicide.
The Security Directorate of the Canton of Zurich subsequently revoked X.'s settlement permit. He filed an appeal against this, which was dismissed by the Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich. X. now appeals in public law matters to the Federal Supreme Court.
Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court notes that the revocation of the settlement permit is permissible under the provisions of the Foreign Nationals Act (Art. 63 para. 1 lit. a and b FNA), as X. was sentenced to a long-term custodial sentence of more than one year and has also seriously violated public safety and order.
In examining the proportionality, the Federal Supreme Court concludes that the public interest in excluding X. outweighs his personal interest in remaining in…