MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A dual Swiss-Tunisian national was arrested in Geneva airport on return from nine-month trip to Turkey on terrorist group-links suspicion, local media reported Wednesday, citing Swiss public prosecutor.
"These arrests demonstrate the rigorous prosecution of all persons in Switzerland who are suspected of trying to participate in terrorism as a part of the jihadist movement," a spokesman for the Swiss public prosecutor’s office told Le Tribune de Geneve newspaper.
The suspect, a 29-year-old practicing Muslim, left for Istanbul last year, and his mother told the paper that police feared he had been radicalized and travelled to Syria. He and his 21-year-old friend have been under criminal investigation since February under suspicion of violating the Swiss law, under which terrorist groups like Daesh and al-Qaeda are banned.
In late June, Swiss police arrested a suspected Islamist leader, who allegedly played an important role in radicalizing local youth and recruiting them to fight for Daesh, which is outlawed in Russia and many other countries, in Syria and Iraq.
