Switzerland indicts 2 men on terrorism-related charges

GENEVA AP Swiss federal prosecutors on Monday informed an indictment of a Kosovar and a Swiss-Macedonian dual national on terrorism-related charges and spreading the ideology of the banned extremist group Islamic State The -year-old Kosovar and the -year-old dual national who were not identified by name are suspected of having carried out indoctrination financing and recruitment of the Swiss chapter of a Kosovar terrorist organization over the last decade mostly in the Geneva area the Swiss Attorney General s office announced The two men were arrested in September in connection with an probe into their alleged help for the Islamic State group The subjects allegedly launched a drive to drum up backing and funds for a Salafi-jihadi ideology with hopes to destabilize Kosovo and seize territory to rule under sharia law The persons face charges including participation in a terrorist group bribery of residents authorities and money laundering as well as for illegally drawing several social benefits in Switzerland according to the prosecutors The episode now moves to the federal criminal court Under Swiss law the subjects are entitled to a presumption of innocence until the judicial process runs its full module and ends with a guilty verdict Switzerland whose protocol of neutrality aims to keep it out of conflicts has largely avoided the violent extremism that swept across other parts of Europe and around the world in fresh decades Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in with majority Western nations recognizing its sovereignty but Serbia and its allies Russia and China don t Source