The office of the Swiss attorney general said Saturday the pair were arrested in conjunction with “a second criminal proceeding concerning a terror alert in the area of greater Geneva”.
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The two men are being held on suspicion they manufactured, concealed and transported explosives and toxic gases, as well as for violating federal law which bans membership of groups affiliated to Islamic State or al-Qaida.
Geneva’s public prosecutor and chief police said they would hold a news conference at 1700 (1600 GMT) on Saturday, without giving details. It is not clear if the two suspects are among the four individuals sought.
A spokesman for the Geneva department of security said: “In the framework of investigations carried out following the Paris attacks – at the worldwide and national level – Geneva police and their partners are actively looking for people whose description has been provided by the Swiss Confederation”.
The authorities announced a first probe relating to a “terrorist threat in the Geneva region” on Thursday, prompting the region to raise its alert level to three on a five-point scale.
Geneva has been on high alert over a suspected terror threat in Switzerland.
Geneva is nearly entirely enclosed by France, a country still reeling from the jihadist attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris last month.
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Across town, the head of Geneva security met with the top official at the United Nations office in Geneva, one of the city’s many diplomatic sites where guards carrying submachine guns have been deployed.
