In a statement on Thursday (local time) from the canton’s security department, it added that the alert level in the western city had been raised.
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Geneva police deployed additional agents after being informed by Swiss federal authorities on Wednesday afternoon that the people may be in the area. Police in Belgium and elsewhere have been searching for Salah Abdeslam, who rented a auto which was used to carry gunmen to the Bataclan theatre in Paris, since the attacks. She declined to comment on the number of suspects being sought.
Eight attackers were killed in the November 13 Paris attacks, and two suspects are believed to be at large.
Swiss and French officials say they have been working closely together since the Paris attacks.
USA intelligence services were said to have provided information to Swiss authorities.
A vague threat had turned into a concrete one, Emmanuelle Lo Verso, the spokesperson for the Geneva security department said without giving any further details.
Guards armed with sub-machine guns are protecting the perimeter of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva.
Though there is no indication of any specific increased risk against UN staff in Geneva, the UN headquarters in Geneva also increased its security measures at UN premises in the Swiss city.
The Swiss police in Geneva has proclaimed. Police in several European countries are still searching for individuals believed to have been involved in the attacks or in their planning.
“It is maximum alert”, a second United Nations guard told Reuters. To work with national and worldwide authorities to arrest the wanted. Authorities said he had dropped off one of the bombers who attacked the Stade de France.
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Meanwhile a Dutch court has convicted six men of belonging to a network recruiting young Muslims to join the Islamic State jihadist group, handing them jail terms of up to six years.
