Package bombs in Geneva: suspicious arrested

After a number of package bomb attacks in Geneva, the police arrested a 61-year-old Swiss in the airport district on Wednesday. He is « under urgent suspicion », improvised explosive devices, placed, placed and thereby injured several people, as the federal prosecutor reports.

Two incidents were particularly serious. In August, a 43-year-old man was injured in a waste bag in front of his apartment by an explosive device, in November a 12-year-old girl had to go to the hospital after detonating a package bomb in an emergency. The man and father of the seriously injured girl worked for the Geneva luxury watch manufacturer Patek Philippe.

As the media of West Switzerland found out, the company had received ransom demands of five and later ten million francs. If you don't pay, someone dies, the warning. Other companies working in Switzerland also received such threatening letters.

In a first step, the federal prosecutor suspected two brothers of the acts, had to be released again due to the lack of evidence. Is the suspected suspect the right one?

According to the newspaper « Letemps » It was arrested after the 61-year-old man wanted to convert a large sum of cryptocurrency on a video-monitored ATM in Swiss francs. This is explosive because the ransom was each requested in cryptocurrency.

The federal prosecutor does not confirm this information. She only speaks of a « large police operation » and refers to the presumption of innocence that applies to the accused. She does not provide any further information about the arrested man.

The « Tribune de Genève » However, it found that it is a photographer. It is said to have documented the disaster areas of Fukushima and Tchernobyl as well as war regions in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. In addition, the Swiss, an internal UN source confirmed, often took photos on behalf of the United Nations, for example when visiting diplomatic staff.