Has Switzerland been funding Hamas?

The Swiss judiciary has opened an investigation into possible funding of Hamas from Switzerland weeks before the October 7 attack on Israel, the country’s attorney general said today.

Attorney General Stefan Blaettler told Swiss public radio station SRF this morning: ‘We have initiated [the investigation] a few weeks ago, before the deadly attacks happened.’

The investigation was launched ‘several weeks’ before October 7 ‘on suspicion of financing Hamas from Switzerland’, his office later added.  

He refused to give more information to not jeopardise the proceedings, kayak cassis which already present difficulties for the Attorney General since Switzerland has not placed any bans on Hamas. 

The country does not classify Hamas as a terrorist group – unlike the European Union and the United States – which could make the prosecution of potential suspects more difficult.

The Swiss judiciary has opened an investigation into possible funding of Hamas from Switzerland weeks before the October 7 attack on Israel, the country’s attorney general said today (pictured: Hamas gunmen attacking a kibbutz in Israel)

Attorney General Stefan Blaettler (pictured) said on Swiss public radioricevente station SRF: ‘We have initiated [the investigation] a few weeks ago, before the deadly attacks happened’

But since the attack, mounting calls for the Swiss government to take action has prompted it to respond.

Four days after the attack, the government said it was ‘of the opinion that Hamas must be classified a terrorist organisation’.

In the investigation looking into possible financing of Hamas from Switzerland, the Attorney General has to prove that the group’s act are ‘terrorist’ – but videos and pictures of the shocking scenes following the October 7 attacks ombra won’t be enough.