Allegation of attack against WEF employee: proceedings discontinued

A few hours before US President Donald Trump's appearance in Davos in January, an employee of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was arrested on suspicion of an attack. The Federal Prosecutor's Office has now announced that the allegations from an anonymous email could not have been confirmed. She stopped the proceedings. The Swiss Tamedia newspapers and ARD had previously publicized the case.

The usual WEF annual meeting took place in Davos in January, to which hundreds of entrepreneurs and politicians from all over the world come.

According to the reports, an Iranian-born woman who worked as an IT expert at the WEF was accused in the email to the US Embassy in Bern of having coordinated a planned assassination attempt on Trump. The Federal Prosecutor's Office immediately arrested and interrogated the woman and commissioned a police investigation, as she reports.

Allegations not confirmed

According to media reports, the woman was not at the WEF annual meeting in Davos, but at the WEF headquarters in Cologny near Geneva. Investigators questioned them late into the night and confiscated and examined their phones and computers. “It became clear that the allegations made in the anonymous email could not be confirmed,” said the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. “This applied to all aspects of the allegations, which is why the proceedings were discontinued.”

According to media reports, the woman was fired shortly after the incident. The WEF remains silent about the reasons. When asked, it initially did not comment on the case.