Deal for first 2 of 19 arrested in French, N African drug, tax evasion scam GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two brothers who played key roles in a large North African-French-Swiss fraud scheme that involved money laundering for drug runners and supplying cash for French tax evaders, were given prison sentences Tuesday 29 January, in Geneva. The [...]
Train crimes on the rise: internal report
November 11, 2012 by
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The CFF rail company is reported by Sonntagsblick 11 November to be concerned about the sharp increase in crime on trains in Switzerland, notably theft and violence towards passengers and train personnel. In the first six months of 2012, 539 employees were threatened, a 32 percent increase, and 110 were attacked, a [...]
Swiss-French anti-crime communications network set up
July 4, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – French security forces and their Swiss counterparts in bordering cantons reported Wednesday 4 July the establishment of a communications network to improve the fight against cross-border crime. Cantonal police in Jura, Valais, Neuchatel and Vaud signed an agreement with their French counterparts to enhance the transmission of information about crimes committed across [...]
Hot time in the city: safety tips for your Swiss summer (update)
June 29, 2012 by
Including what’s on, new fun, travel tip and weather GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Temperatures are rising and we’re all heading out to the lake, swimming pools, concerts and festivals, lakeside terraces. Switzerland and its large cities remain some of the safest places on the planet because the level of violent crime is very low, but don’t [...]
Asylum seekers’ fight at Fribourg station leaves 1 in critical condition
May 16, 2012 by
FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND – A fight that broke out at the Fribourg train station at 20.20 Tuesday 15 May has left one man, a 26-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker, in critical condition, say Fribourg police. Five men, all African asylum seekers, were arrested, but a sixth man fled the scene. Police are trying to identify the missing [...]
Geneva’s second murder of 2012, elderly man slain
April 13, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 78-year-old Spanish man, identified by press reports as Julio, has become Geneva’s second murder of 2012. According to Geneva police, the man was found Tuesday 10 April at 10:10, but his murder took place a few days earlier. His throat had been “significantly slit” by an unknown person who entered his [...]
Man killed in Zurich Staeffi station
March 11, 2012 by
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A man was killed with a knife during a fight at the Staefa station in Zurich shortly after 18:00, city police say. Bypassers and rescue workers provided immediate help but failed to save the man. Another man is under arrest, but police are not providing further details.
Swiss, French police to collaborate more closely
September 23, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss police and gendarme training school in Savatan has signed an agreement with the French national Gendarmerie to boost mutual training and continuing education projects. One of the key goals will be to improve cross-border collaboration, increasingly important given growing policing problems in urban France and the Lake Geneva region that [...]
Geneva crime levels: real, media hype or a fuzzy in-between?
August 25, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The hottest media story in Geneva in recent weeks has been about safety in the city, the rising rate of crime, the poor police response, the danger to foreigners visiting the city, the danger of foreigners bringing crime into the city: in short, Geneva, that haven of peace, isn’t what it used [...]
African immigrant stabbed in Aargau, call to witnesses
July 25, 2011 by
AARGAU, SWITZERLAND – A 31-year-old African immigrant was stabbed several times during what seemed to be an unprovoked attack at the Aargau train station on 24 July. According to cantonal police, the circumstances of the attack are still unclear but two assailants are believed to have attacked the man while he purchased a train ticket [...]
