Major police operation in progress at Petite-Boissière, this Monday afternoon, in the Grange-Canal sector, in Geneva. An incident occurred at 4:15 p.m. in the building number 36 and left one person lightly injured. The victim is a child. He was taken by ambulance. The area was cordoned off. The police are mobilized.
According to our information, the hypothesis of a parcel bomb is being studied. The robot from the EOD detachment (Neutralization, removal, detection of explosive devices) intervened on site. These circumstances are reminiscent of those of the explosion of a garbage bag in a building that occurred in Saint-Jean on August 20.
According to several testimonies, the police ask residents not to touch the mailboxes. Those who had gone out cannot return home, “while we secure the paths,” says a police officer. As for those who were at home, they are asked to stay at home. A prosecutor is on the scene.
At 5:40 p.m., the police were touring the floors reporting a possible evacuation of the building adjacent to number 36. At 6:15 p.m., the evacuation was underway via the basement of the building. And the inhabitants are taken to the Le Corbusier school.
It seems likely that this affair is linked to that of Saint-Jean. Indeed, in the Petite-Boissière building lives a man working for a local watch factory. It seems that it was his mailbox that exploded. However, this summer in Saint-Jean, the father injured by the explosion of a garbage bag placed in front of his home was employed in the same company. The police were then closely interested in this professional lead: in the past, this company had received parcel bombs accompanied by threats such as: “next time, we will attack the employees”.
