Terror Threat in Lausanne and Geneva

Country: Switzerland

Date of incident: August 13, 2017


A 28-year-old man planned a terror attack in Lausanne and on a church in Geneva, according to evidence found on his mobile phone.

The man, known to the police, was arrested on August 13, 2017 during a baptism ceremony in a church in France after yelling "believe in God because you are in danger" and shouted several times "Allah Akbar." The man will be incarcerated in Lyon until his court appearance on October 12, 2017.
The day before his arrest, he had married a mother of two children, who was also arrested by the French customs officers near Geneva, at the Thonex-Vallard customs office. The young woman appeared before the Court of Thonon on September 21, 2017 and was sentenced to six months in prison with a three-year suspended sentence. And the Parisian resident can no longer contact her husband.  Pledging allegiance to the "Caliphate of Daesh," he said via Snapchat, "We are going to blow up in Lausanne and in a church in Geneva, we meet again in Paradise, take care of my wife." Source: 24 Heures