The alert level has been raised in Geneva today, and the Swiss federal police are looking for people they suspect could be connected to terrorism.
Initially, the security authorities of the canton of Geneva announced that the measures were taken "as part of the investigations carried out after last month's attacks in Paris".
The federal police in Bern, however, later announced that the explanation was not adequately formulated, and that it ordered the Geneva police to look for people who could be connected to terrorism, but did not link them to the Paris attacks, reports Reuters.
Security officials at the UN's European headquarters in Geneva said Swiss authorities were searching for four men they believed to be in the city or the surrounding area and that the UN headquarters was on maximum alert.
The Swiss newspaper "Maten" states that a car registered in Belgium, where some of the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris lived, passed a police check near Geneva, after which the police analyzed photos of four suspected militant Islamists that were provided to them by the American CIA.
The newspaper "Tribune de Genève" writes that a suspicious car with two men was spotted in Geneva, and then left the country, while Swiss television reports that the Jewish community in that city is advised to be cautious.
In Geneva, by the way, three days of talks between representatives of the USA, Russia and the UN on the Syrian crisis should begin tomorrow.
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