Fear turned to disbelief on Monday afternoon at a hairdressing salon in the city of St Gallen when a masked man stormed the building shouting ‘terrorist attack’.
A Swiss man whose apartment was raided by police has protested against the seizure of explosive material found at his home, saying he simply had an interest in chemistry.
Some 250 people gathered in Yverdon-les-Bains on Monday night to mourn a six-year-old girl and her mother from the area who died in the attack on Nice last week.
Every police officer in Switzerland should receive anti-terrorism training, Geneva city councillor Pierre Maudet has said in an interview following the attack in Nice last week.
The Swiss president has expressed his deep shock and sadness at the horrific attack in the French city of Nice during the Bastille Day celebrations late on Thursday night.
Police have arrested a man suspected of being a key figure behind the radicalization of young Muslims in the eastern Swiss city of Winterthur, according to media reports.
The measure put forward by Swiss president and chairman of the country's populist Swiss People’s Party Toni Brunner was rejected by the Swiss senate to the tune of 27 votes against and 12 in favour.
A new European counter-terrorism centre opening this month will improve information-sharing among national police forces whose performance is under scrutiny after the jihadist attacks in Paris in November, the director of Europol has told AFP.
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.
More than 30 people working at Geneva’s international airport have had their runway access revoked after it was discovered that two former baggage handlers were on French security police’s radar, the airport and media said on Friday.
Geneva is returning to normal after authorities lowered the terror alert level raised earlier this month following intelligence about a specific threat in the canton.
The Swiss attorney general has opened a criminal investigation of a leading member in a Swiss Muslim organisation accused of violating a ban on jihadist groups, the attorney general's office said on Saturday.
