Geneva police hunting 5 suspects related to Paris attacks, source says
By Ralph Ellis, Margot Haddad | CNN | December 10, 2015, 11:40AM EST(CNN) - Geneva, Switzerland, was on high alert Thursday as police searched for suspects related to the terror attacks in Paris, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
Police were looking for five radicalized people suspected to be part of Mourad Fares' network, the source said.
Fares, a French national, is the man who recruited Foued Mohamed-Aggad, who was identified as the third attacker at the Bataclan theater in Paris, the source said.
According to French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, Fares is a known recruiter for jihad in Syria. French intelligence sources say he's worked for ISIS, mainly in Francophone countries, and in Switzerland, including in Geneva.
He was arrested in August 2014 in Turkey and was placed in detention in France on September 11, 2014.
U.S. Intelligence services provided information to Switzerland regarding four individuals plotting attacks against Switzerland and cities in the United States, the source said.
Swiss authorities then raised the terror alert level as a precaution, according to the source. Authorities in Geneva don't know whether these individuals are currently on Swiss territory, the source said.
National authorities gave Geneva authorities a description of suspects who could be in Geneva or the Geneva region. Investigations are being carried out in close collaboration with international and French police.
"We have gone from a vague threat to a precise threat," Emmanuelle Lo Verso, head of communications at the Geneva Department of Security, told CNN. She would not comment on the nature of the threat.
The statement said that the "level of vigilance" in the city has been raised and that more police have been put on the streets.
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