Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik described Switzerland in his manifeso as one of the most important targets in his campaign to wipe out European Muslims.

 

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Breivik proposed terrorist attack on Switzerland

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik described Switzerland in his manifeso as one of the most important targets in his campaign to wipe out European Muslims.

 

Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto described Switzerland as the fourth most multi-cultural country in Europe, behind Norway, Sweden and Germany, calculating that seven percent of the population was Muslim.

Official statistics suggest that between four and six percent of Swiss people are Muslim.

In the manifesto the 32-year-old praises the country for banning minarets, and said he admired Switzerland’s right-wing parties, including the SVP, the Swiss Democrats and the Freedom Party.

But Breivik also claims that politics has become futile, and that a terrorist attack on Switzerland is necessary.

“The resistance fighters must act in these countries, because they cannot hope for a change through democratic means,” the manifesto says.

He proposed attacking Switzerland’s oil refineries and nuclear power stations, specifically naming the nuclear reactors in Beznau, Gösgen, Leibstadt and Mühleberg.

Meanwhile, Swiss police said they are working on strategies to be able to react quicker to mass shootings like the one on the Norwegian island of Utoya. This would include making sure the regular police, rather than special commando units, are trained to intervene in such situations.

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Hoax bomb threats against French airports ‘traced to Swiss email’

Repeated bomb threats against dozens of French airports which led to evacuations and flight cancellations have been 'traced to an email address in Switzerland', according to French authorities.

Hoax bomb threats against French airports 'traced to Swiss email'

More than 70 bomb threats have been made against French airports in the past week, leading to evacuations at dozens of airports and at least 130 flights cancelled.

Most of the alerts were triggered by emails warning of a bomb in the airport – more than 70 such emails have been received by airports around the country such as Toulouse, Bordeaux, Paris Beauvais, Marseille and dozens of smaller airports – including Basel-Mulhouse on the Franco-Swiss border. 

On Sunday French Transport Minister Clément Beaune said that “almost all of the threats have been traced to the same email address, situated in Switzerland”.

He added: “Since Wednesday, it is almost always the same email address that is used, located outside the European Union, in Switzerland”.

He called on hosting sites to help the French authorities, saying: “Everyone has a responsibility, including the platforms and social networks, not to support this kind of attack and to cooperate as quickly as possible with the French civil aviation authorities and our justice system.”

In France, the maximum penalty for making a hoax bomb threat is two years in jail and a €30,000 fine.

As well as airport evacuations and flight disruption, French tourist sites have also been hit with bomb hoaxes – the Palace of Versailles has been evacuated seven times in the past week.

It comes in the context of a tense situation in France as the country raised its terror alert to maximum after an apparent Islamist attack on Friday, October 13th in which a teacher was killed and two others wounded.

Security at large events such as the Rugby World Cup matches has been stepped up. 

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