The statement said the probe was opened on Wednesday and that federal authorities were coordinating with their Geneva counterparts. The United Nations office in Geneva also was increasing its security precautions, even though it said there was no indication of any specific increased threat against the U.N. mission.
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U.S. has also warned Switzerland about the presence of Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in Paris attack, in their country.
In accordance with French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, Fares is an established recruiter for jihad in Syria.
He was put in detention in France on September 11, 2014 and was detained in Turkey in August 2014.
She declined to comment on news reports indicating that either four or six suspects were being sought or say whether French or other foreign authorities had pointed out the suspects.
Geneva is more than 250 miles southeast of Paris.
Investigations are being carried out in close cooperation with French and worldwide authorities.
Toronto police spokesperson Const. David Hopkinson said the force is aware of the media reports out of Switzerland, but would not say if Toronto police had increased security for operational reasons. Armed UN security guards were stationed at entry points for cars and were on maximum alert.
According to ATS, the heightened alert level has not led to the cancellation of a major festival due to be held in Geneva’s historic old city over the weekend. To work with national and worldwide authorities to arrest the wanted.
Following a tip-off from the USA intelligence, a picture of four bearded men suspected of being members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has been circulated among the local police.
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At least seven of the weapons used or discovered after the November 13 attacks that killed 130 people have been identified as produced by the Serbian factory, a lot of them manufactured before Yugoslavia broke up in a civil war in the 1990s.
