Now Switzerland ramps up security amid terror fears following Berlin market attack
SWISS intelligence services have ramped up their security in light of the recent terror attack on a popular Christmas market in Berlin.
By JON ROGERS
Express.co.uk
Thu, Dec 22, 2016
The European country, which has a population of more than eight million, has stepped up its surveillance of around 480 people it considers to have potential links to Islamic extremists and who pose a possible threat to national security.
The country’s National Intelligence Service (NDB) is currently actively monitoring possible terror cells that could be centred around the city of Geneva in the west of the country.
Last year US intelligence services are believed to have passed information on to the NDB regarding Islamist fighters that were involved in the atrocities in Paris could be hiding out in Geneva.
Due to the neutrality of the country and its lack of military involvement in Syria, Switzerland is not see as a key terrorist target but the Swiss flag has been noted in an Islamic State (ISIS) video which identified 60 countries it deemed to be its enemies.
Earlier this year, a terror cell was unearthed in Winterthur that had sent people to fight in Syria for ISIS, with local media reports saying the local An’Nur mosque had been a centre for radicalisation.
The country’s current threat level was described as “high” by NDB’s head Markus Seiler in May.
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