Two senior executives at French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim, including its former CEO, were charged on Friday over claims that top management turned a blind eye to payments to jihadists in Syria, a judicial source said.
Three top officials of Swiss-French cement-maker Lafarge were charged on Friday with indirectly financing jihadists through the company's activities in war-torn Syria, one of their lawyers and judicial sources said.
The canton of Valais is set to pay hommage on Friday to two prominent Swiss men who were killed in a terrorist attack this month in Burkina Faso’s capital that claimed the lives of 30 people.
Private Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar said on Tuesday that it had received a video purportedly from the Al-Qaeda-linked Emirate of the Sahara group claiming responsibility for this month's kidnapping of Swiss woman Beatrice Stockly in northern Mali.
France's state of emergency and new electronic surveillance laws imposed following the November attacks in Paris impose
"excessive and disproportionate" restrictions on key rights, UN experts said in Geneva on Tuesday.
The death toll in an attack by jihadists on a top hotel in Burkina Faso's capital rose to 29 on Sunday, including French and Swiss victims, the country's Security Minister Simon Compaore said.
Switzerland has active criminal proceedings against 33 individuals over suspected ties to extremist Islamist groups, but only three people are currently in custody, the attorney general's office said on Sunday.
Switzerland has extradited a French teenager who was trying to reach Syria for a second time since March, the federal department of justice said on Friday.
A 25-year-old Swiss man suspected of trying
to travel to Syria or Iraq to join jihadists has been arrested at Zurich airport, the federal prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
Twenty-two people have left Switzerland to fight abroad as jihadists since May, including eight in the past fortnight, the Swiss intelligence agency said on Monday.
