French police in Thonon were placed on high alert after messages were posted on Snapchat suggesting the Jean-Jacques Rousseau School was to be attacked with bombs and threatening the principal with kidnapping.
The messages urged students not to attend school.
A 12-year-old boy has been arrested for sending the messages – he told police he meant them as a joke.
No evidence of an attack has been found. The boy will be in juvenile court next month.
Inheritance and service votes look doomed
The upcoming vote on inheritance tax looks certain to fail – by a large margin – and it could be a disaster for the Young Socialists who proposed it.
UNICEF scales back its Geneva HQ
UNICEF, like many other international organisations, is scaling back in Geneva.
Could Geneva get an underground system
Could Geneva get its own underground rail system?
Alpine rail freight below target
Switzerland is frustrated at the lack of progress to move more freight across the Alps by train.
Locals are being priced out of housing market
Switzerland’s housing market is tightening dramatically. The national vacancy rate has slipped to just one percent – close to an acute shortage.
Geneva has the worst housing in the country
A new study from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland suggests that Geneva’s strict housing protection rules have helped push rents higher and the canton leads the country in the number of dilapidated homes.
