Authorities in Geneva raised the city’s level of alert and deployed additional police officers on Thursday in an apparent search for terror suspects.
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Michael Moller, the Director-General of the UN Office at Geneva, said that the preventive measures are commensurate with the information received from Swiss authorities and other sources about police operations being conducted in the city of Geneva and the region.
The bomb and shooting attacks killed 130 people and injured hundreds across Paris with most of the bloodshed occurring in the Bataclan theater.
The Geneva Department of Security also noted that they “have increased their level of vigilance and reinforced the number of police agents on the ground”, according to RT.
Geneva is the headquarters for more than thirty global organisations.
Meanwhile, Swiss and French Officials said that they have been working closely together since the Paris attacks. He also declined to identify the names, ages or nationalities of the people being sought.
Heavily armed police carrying submachine guns stood guard outside diplomatic missions Thursday in Geneva.
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.
The Tribune de Genève, a Swiss news agency, reported that a journalist claimed to have seen a police report regarding the four unknown suspects that specified Geneva, Chicago and Toronto as possible targets. Another guard said the United Nations compound was on maximum alert. Normally, officers carry lighter weapons.
Police control the area in front of the French consulate due to a high level of alert, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Geneva officials could not confirm the report.
But she added that there was no evidence that they had been planning a specific attack on Swiss soil.
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There is no indication these people are directly linked to the Paris attacks, Cathy Maret, a spokeswoman for the Swiss federal police, said by phone. Several arrests were made in Belgium after the attacks.
