Some ten terrorism-related investigations are currently underway at the Swiss Federal Office of Police (Fedpol), says its director Eva Wildi-Cortés.
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Some ten terrorism-related investigations are currently underway at the Swiss Federal Office of Police (Fedpol), its director Eva Wildi-Cortés said on Sunday. She was speaking a week after it was announced that an attack had been foiled in Switzerland.
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“At the moment, we have around ten terrorism-related investigations. They concern jihadist propaganda or the financing of terrorism,” Wildi-Cortés told Swiss public radio, RTS.
She gave no further details of the procedure underway concerning the alleged terrorist attack foiled last spring. The alleged perpetrator, an 18-year-old Swiss radical, has been remanded in custody and a search has been carried out.
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The radicalisation of minors online is one of Wildi-Cortés’s biggest concerns. Its development is “very worrying”, she said.
Organised crime is also growing. The number of criminal organisations in Switzerland is very large, said Wildi-Cortés, who took office at the beginning of the year. Trafficking in drugs, arms and human beings is a reality in the country.
Last week, Federal Prosecutor Stefan Blättler was quoted in the press as predicting a bleak future over the next ten to 15 years. Switzerland could find itself in the same situation as Sweden, plagued by gang wars, he said.
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