Two MSF workers kidnapped at Kenya’s Dabaab refugee camp, driver shot
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two women, Medecin Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff, were kidnapped at 13:20 Thursday 13 October from the Ifo extension area of the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya....
View ArticleColombian child released with Red Cross help
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl in Colombia three weeks ago outraged the country and when Nohora Valentina Munoz was released near the Venezuelan border...
View ArticleSomali kidnappers demand ransom for French woman’s remains
GenevaLunch News France announced that 66-year-old Marie Dedieu, who was kidnapped on October 1 from her beach house in Kenya, and taken to Somalia, has died in the hands of her captors, most probably...
View ArticleTrio arrested in Brazil for cannibalism
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A man, his wife and his mistress were arrested in Northeastern Brazil for allegedly killing at least two women and then eating them. The three, who admit using...
View ArticleSwiss hostage in Yemen shown in video, uncertainty over validity
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A Swiss woman kidnapped in Yemen in March appears in a video that has been published on the Internet, but according to Swiss public broadcasting RTS it is not yet...
View ArticleKidnapping system gets live test in Vaud
GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWIZTZERLAND – A 12-year-old girl kidnapped from the Trois Sapins middle school in Echallens, canton Vaud, police alerted, witnesses heard: the story was a false alarm but a...
View ArticleJoint police effort nabs German who kidnapped his daughter
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss alert system for kidnapped children functioned effectively this weekend, resulting in a 41-year-old German man’s arrest in Germany for kidnapping his...
View ArticleIrish property tycoon found after apparent kidnapping
GenevaLunch News 8 months after disappearance, starving McGeever found wandering on road GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Kevin McGeever, an Irish property tycoon who was known for making his money selling homes...
View ArticleAmerican student kidnapped, taken to Lyons, released
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva police have confirmed to GenevaLunch.com that an American student was kidnapped and taken to France, where he was released. “The ‘banditism’ brigade in...
View ArticleSwiss hostage released after year in captivity in Yemen
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A 33-year-old Swiss teacher of languages who was kidnapped in March 2012 by armed militants at her home in Yemen has been released. No ransom was paid and it...
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