Geneva police hunt suspects as part of Paris attacks probe

He said the suspects were not believed to have had direct links to the Paris terror attacks, appearing to revise an earlier statement from the Geneva security department.

The security services in the Canton of Geneva said they had received information on Wednesday from Swiss federal authorities about suspicious individuals in the Geneva area.

The whereabouts of Salah Abdeslam, one of the masterminds behind the attack, is still on the run while others are also believed to have fled France.

The guards stationed at vehicle entry points to the United Nations grounds were, unusually, carrying Mp5 sub-machine guns yesterday.

The U.S. undersecretary of state for the Near East, Anne Patterson, will attend the talks, which diplomats said will be low-key consultations to prepare for further multilateral discussions.

The investigation into the attacks last month which killed 130, has already spanned beyond the borders of France to Belgium.

“We have gone from a vague threat to a specific one”, Emmanuelle Lo Verso, a spokeswoman for the security department, told the AP.

Fares, a French national, is the guy who recruited Foued Mohamed-Aggad, who was identified as the 3rd attacker at the Bataclan theatre in Paris, the source said.

Geneva’s police chief Monica Bonfanti told reporters that 1,400 police were trained to deal with emergency situations like terrorist attacks.

Since the Nov.13, 2015 terror attacks, several European countries have been involved in investigations and searches for the perpetrators.

“It is maximum alert”, a second United Nations guard said.

Following reports of “precise” terrorist threats in Geneva, the city’s state prosecutor also announced Thursday that a penal procedure has been opened in view of acts preparatory to the commission of an offence. To work with national and worldwide authorities to arrest the wanted.