Police on hunt for four Paris terror suspects in Geneva

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 lawmaker who chaperoned the plan through parliament, Timothy Kirkhope, said: “now we have to get this implemented”.

It is unclear if the suspects in Geneva are directly related to the Paris attacks.

Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said on Friday that Switzerland had been tipped off by a foreign authority to the possible presence of an Islamic State cell in Geneva.

A spokeswoman for the Geneva security office, Emmanuelle Lo Verso, said later that Geneva’s alert level had been raised from 2 to 3 on a scale of 5.

Meanwhile, Swiss and French Officials said that they have been working closely together since the Paris attacks.

According to Le Temps, a suspect van was seen in Geneva with Belgian plates on 8 December.

Authorities have raised the terror threat in Switzerland’s second city with local police engaged in anti-terror raids.

Police were boosting the threat level and reinforcing “agents on the ground”, the statement said.

“The heightened security affects the entire Geneva area, and the UN is taking measures that are commensurate with those taken in the host country”, UN Geneva spokesman Rheal LeBlanc said.

Among them, the United Nations European headquarters where security guards have been positionned carrying sub-machine guns. Authorities have not said what role he may have played in the attacks. Several bombers were in Parisian Cafés, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall before the football stadium Stade de France indiscriminately on people shot or blow themselves up in the air.

One report cited Geneva, Toronto and Chicago as possible targets in connection with an investigation of four men alleged to be supporters of the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

They killed 130 people and wounded hundreds.