Switzerland is increasingly affected by organised crime. To counter this growing threat, the country is to adopt a national strategy by the end of 2026. For the new director of the Federal Police Office (fedpol), Eva Wildi-Cortés, this shift is “crucial” if Switzerland is to continue fighting criminal networks effectively. The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has identified more than 800 criminal organisations active in Europe. “Most of them are also in Switzerland. We are talking about the Balkan mafia, the Albanian mafia, the Nigerian brotherhoods, the Moroccan mafia, the Italian mafia. There are also Turkish, Chinese and Dutch criminal organisations,” Wildi-Cortés told Swiss public television, RTS. This rise in criminal activity has led Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service to raise the threat level for organised crime from level 3 to level 5 (on a scale of 6) over the past two years. In an interview with La Liberté newspaper in June 2024, the Lucerne ...
