Geneva Police Hunt Terror Suspects as UN Site on Alert

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Source: NBC News

PARIS — Police in Geneva were looking for several suspects after last month's deadly Paris attacks, Swiss security officials said Thursday.

"In light of the international and national investigation that followed the attacks in Paris, the Police Department in Geneva is actively searching for several individuals under the guidance of the Federal Intelligence Services," according to a statement issued by the city's department of security.

Authorities got word Wednesday that federal officials had flagged that "several suspects were likely in Geneva or in the region around the city," it added.

Police were boosting the threat level and reinforcing "agents on the ground," the statement said. Authorities did not specify how many people were being sought or their identities.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/paris-attacks-geneva-police-hunt-suspects-un-site-alert-n477566

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1. Things seem to be handled so far

with typical Swiss understatement: no breaking TV news alerts although GVA's main newspaper le Tribune de Geneve (http://www.tdg.ch/) is publishing on-line updates. There was about a five-minute summary on tonight's TV nightly news, etc. Then they moved on to events concerning the whole country and the world.

Security has been stepped up at the UN and other GVA-based international organizations and at the various country missions to the UN. There are apparently armed policemen at the main train station and at the airport.

I traveled from my home near GVA to Bern today by train to visit Bern's annual Christmas Market, where everything was totally normal and I enjoyed the mulled wine and raclette. I hadn't heard about any of this until my return this afternoon - mainly because my anxious spouse who is currently in the US had been reading the TDG bulletins and called because he was worried about me.

There was no obvious stepped-up security on the train and no one traveling to GVA seemed concerned at all. My stop was the last stop before arriving Cornavin (GVA's main train station).

It's not that people here don't take terrorism seriously. They do. They just don't let terrorism rule their lives.

And they certainly don't run out and buy more guns.