Earlier in the day, Markus Seiler, the FIS chief, and Guy Parmelin, head of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, presented an annual FIS report.
The Swiss 24 heures newspaper reported, citing Seiler that the terrorism-related activities of some 400 suspected people had been revealed in 2016, in comparison with about 300 in 2015.
Countries across the globe have been boosting their security following a series of terrorist attacks, including the downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on October 31, 2015, attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 and Brussels on March 22. Militants affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh) terror group, claimed responsibility for all of these violent terror acts.
Daesh, which occupies vast territories of Iraq and Syria and is outlawed in Russia and many other countries, has gained much notoriety for conducting suicide bombings and other attacks worldwide as well as for recruiting young people via social media.