(Swiss Info) Two men from the Balkans will appear before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona today, charged with supporting and participating in an extremist group that had planned to destabilise a region of Kosovo.
The two accused are a 37-year-old Kosovar and a 34-year-old dual national of Switzerland and Macedonia. Based in the Geneva region, they were arrested in September 2022 after lengthy surveillance and have been languishing in prison ever since.
The charges brought by the Office of the Attorney-General are serious: participation in, and support for, a terrorist organisation, bribery of foreign public officials, money laundering, obstruction of criminal proceedings, forgery of documents and fraud by trade, among others. The two men are presumed innocent.
