https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Ticino cantonal police say they have arrested a pupil who threatened to kill students and staff at a school in Bellinzona. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180511/ticino-police-arrest-19-year-old-suspected-of-planning-school-massacre Fri, 11 May 2018 09:59:20 +0200 ticino-police-arrest-19-year-old-suspected-of-planning-school-massacre A Swiss tourist has been left with a fractured skull after he and his girlfriend were attacked near the Taj Mahal during a holiday in India, police and media reports said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171026/swiss-couple-suffer-brutal-attack-in-india Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:10:45 +0200 swiss-couple-suffer-brutal-attack-in-india The Latvian teenager who injured seven people in an axe attack in Flums on Sunday night had already been psychologically assessed by the authorities after expressing violent fantasies, according to reports. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171025/teenage-axe-attacker-expressed-violent-fantasies Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:13:42 +0200 teenage-axe-attacker-expressed-violent-fantasies Updated: A teenager armed with an axe injured seven people in a rampage in Switzerland on Sunday evening before being shot and arrested, police said, describing the incident as unrelated to terrorism. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171023/teenager-injures-several-in-axe-attack-in-flums Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:49:50 +0200 teenager-injures-several-in-axe-attack-in-flums Swiss police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Tunisian couple including the brother of the assailant who fatally stabbed two young women in the French city of Marseille this month. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171010/brother-of-marseille-attacker-arrested-by-swiss-police Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:20:10 +0200 brother-of-marseille-attacker-arrested-by-swiss-police The man who injured several people on Monday morning after storming a Schaffhausen office building with a chainsaw is still on the run, police have said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170725/swiss-chainsaw-attacker-still-on-the-run Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:35:10 +0200 swiss-chainsaw-attacker-still-on-the-run The Swiss president Doris Leuthard has expressed her “heartfelt condolences” after the attack on a concert in the northern English city of Manchester that killed at least 22 and injured many more. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170523/swiss-president-condemns-terrible-attack-in-uk Tue, 23 May 2017 12:45:47 +0200 swiss-president-condemns-terrible-attack-in-uk A woman out jogging on Monday evening in Yvorne in the canton of Vaud suffered wounds to her legs and an arm after being set upon by two Boxer dogs. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170217/jogger-attacked-by-two-boxer-dogs-in-yvorne Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:46:24 +0100 jogger-attacked-by-two-boxer-dogs-in-yvorne In an extraordinary twist to his tale, Pascal Jaussi, the founder and CEO of a Swiss space technology firm, is accused of staging the supposed attack that left him with serious burns last summer. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170126/police-allege-swiss-space-boss-staged-attack-that-hospitalised-him Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:27:27 +0100 police-allege-swiss-space-boss-staged-attack-that-hospitalised-him Police in Zurich are hunting a man who injured a tram driver on Saturday in an unprovoked attack. https://www.thelocal.ch/20161017/zurich-tram-driver-attacked-in-confrontation-with-biker Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:05:34 +0200 zurich-tram-driver-attacked-in-confrontation-with-biker Attacks on police officers should be more severely punished, the Swiss police federation (VSPB) has said following an incident in Basel on Saturday night when five officers were set upon by a group of 200 drunken youths. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160906/five-police-officers-set-upon-by-200-attackers Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:14:43 +0200 five-police-officers-set-upon-by-200-attackers A second victim of the train attack in Salez earlier this month has died in hospital from her injuries. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160831/17-year-old-dies-from-injuries-after-salez-train-attack Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:57:50 +0200 17-year-old-dies-from-injuries-after-salez-train-attack Local officials have searched a Liechtenstein home belonging to the attacker who started a fire on a Swiss train and stabbed passengers near Salez station on Saturday, police said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160816/police-search-home-of-swiss-train-attacker Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:19:07 +0200 police-search-home-of-swiss-train-attacker Should there be tighter security on Swiss trains? That’s the question that is preoccupying the country after an assailant set fire to a train carriage and stabbed passengers at Salez on Saturday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160815/experts-debate-rail-security-following-swiss-train-attack Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:17:39 +0200 experts-debate-rail-security-following-swiss-train-attack A man who witnessed the stabbing and fire attack on a passenger train in eastern Switzerland on Saturday has spoken of his experience, as police say the motive for the attack is still unclear. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160815/witness-speaks-of-salez-train-attack-horror Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:30:31 +0200 witness-speaks-of-salez-train-attack-horror A 34-year-old woman who was injured in an attack by a knifeman on a Swiss train has died in hospital, police say. The attacker, a 27-year-old Swiss man, also died on Sunday, they said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160814/swiss-knifeman-sets-fire-on-train-injuring-six Sun, 14 Aug 2016 11:35:56 +0200 swiss-knifeman-sets-fire-on-train-injuring-six 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. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160718/swiss-unprepared-for-potential-terror-attack Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:00:19 +0200 swiss-unprepared-for-potential-terror-attack Flights between Switzerland and Brussels were cancelled on Wednesday following the bomb attacks in the Belgian capital on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160323/flight-disruption-continues-after-brussels-attacks Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:17:25 +0100 flight-disruption-continues-after-brussels-attacks Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann has condemned the bomb attacks in Brussels in the name of the government. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160322/swiss-weigh-up-threat-level-following-brussels-attacks Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:33:27 +0100 swiss-weigh-up-threat-level-following-brussels-attacks A 29-year-old asylum seeker from Tunisia was attacked in Therwil, Basel, earlier this month, leaving him in need of surgery on his hand. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160301/asylum-seeker-was-attacked-by-swiss-policeman Tue, 01 Mar 2016 11:01:25 +0100 asylum-seeker-was-attacked-by-swiss-policeman