(Swiss Info) The terrorist threat in Switzerland has increased since the beginning of the year, warned Christian Dussey, director of the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS). He points to a campaign launched by the Islamic State calling for attacks in Europe.
The Islamist terrorist group “hadn’t done this for a long time. It’s really given a new impetus to the movement, multiplied by social networks,” said Dussey in an interview published on Thursday by the Tamedia group’s newspapers.
The most likely risk of attack in Switzerland “is that of an act of violence perpetrated by an isolated individual inspired by jihadism,” he added, citing as an example the anti-Semitic attack committed with a knife by a 15-year-old teenager against an Orthodox Jew at the beginning of March in Zurich. The 50-year-old victim was seriously injured. The teenager claimed responsibility in a video in the name of Islamic State.
