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 Two senior executives at French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim, including its former CEO, were charged on Friday over claims that top management turned a blind eye to payments to jihadists in Syria, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171209/switzerland-france-lafarge-bosses-in-french-court-over-jihadist-funding Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:31:28 +0100 switzerland-france-lafarge-bosses-in-french-court-over-jihadist-funding Three top officials of Swiss-French cement-maker Lafarge were charged on Friday with indirectly financing jihadists through the company's activities in war-torn Syria, one of their lawyers and judicial sources said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171202/top-officials-french-swiss-cement-maker-financing-jihadists-lafarge Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:34:30 +0100 top-officials-french-swiss-cement-maker-financing-jihadists-lafarge The canton of Valais is set to pay hommage on Friday to two prominent Swiss men who were killed in a terrorist attack this month in Burkina Faso’s capital that claimed the lives of 30 people. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160128/memorial-set-for-two-swiss-victims-of-burkina Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:51:34 +0100 memorial-set-for-two-swiss-victims-of-burkina Private Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar said on Tuesday that it had received a video purportedly from the Al-Qaeda-linked Emirate of the Sahara group claiming responsibility for this month's kidnapping of Swiss woman Beatrice Stockly in northern Mali. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160127/video-claims-responsibility-for-swiss-womans-kidnapping Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:55:55 +0100 video-claims-responsibility-for-swiss-womans-kidnapping France's state of emergency and new electronic surveillance laws imposed following the November attacks in Paris impose "excessive and disproportionate" restrictions on key rights, UN experts said in Geneva on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160119/french-anti-terror-measures-curb-freedoms-un Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:01:43 +0100 french-anti-terror-measures-curb-freedoms-un The death toll in an attack by jihadists on a top hotel in Burkina Faso's capital rose to 29 on Sunday, including French and Swiss victims, the country's Security Minister Simon Compaore said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160117/two-swiss-and-two-french-among-foreigners-killed-in-burkina-faso-attack Sun, 17 Jan 2016 19:39:15 +0100 two-swiss-and-two-french-among-foreigners-killed-in-burkina-faso-attack French authorities have searched the homes of two imams from Geneva's main mosque, the largest in Switzerland, the mosque said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151126/french-search-homes-of-geneva-mosque-imams Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:41:12 +0100 french-search-homes-of-geneva-mosque-imams Switzerland has active criminal proceedings against 33 individuals over suspected ties to extremist Islamist groups, but only three people are currently in custody, the attorney general's office said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151122/swiss-probing-33-jihadists Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:51:57 +0100 swiss-probing-33-jihadists Switzerland has extradited a French teenager who was trying to reach Syria for a second time since March, the federal department of justice said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150522/switzerland-extradites-french-teen-jihadist Fri, 22 May 2015 22:52:05 +0200 switzerland-extradites-french-teen-jihadist A 25-year-old Swiss man suspected of trying to travel to Syria or Iraq to join jihadists has been arrested at Zurich airport, the federal prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150408/swiss-suspect-arrested-over-jihadist-flight Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:40:26 +0200 swiss-suspect-arrested-over-jihadist-flight Twenty-two people have left Switzerland to fight abroad as jihadists since May, including eight in the past fortnight, the Swiss intelligence agency said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141215/swiss-tally-ex-residents-fighting-as-jihadists Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:25:00 +0100 swiss-tally-ex-residents-fighting-as-jihadists