In Swiss Geneva, you can’t go outside in Halloween in a clown costume due to mysterious attacks in France

In Switzerland, Halloween will have to have a hard time for those who decided to celebrate this holiday in a clown costume. Police spokesman Geneva Eric Granzhan told Le Temps that on October 31, law enforcement officers will check the documents of people who were dressed by clowns in the masquerade. And another police representative Silvan Guillaume-Jantius said that law enforcement officers are ready to protect residents from hooligans in makeup.

Such precautions have to be taken due to the criminal situation in neighboring France. There is a panic due to street attacks of criminals dressed in costumes and clowns masks, and these sentiments were transmitted to the Swiss, reports Nashhagazeta.ch . In Geneva, there are not yet registered cases of attacks by clown robbers, but the inhabitants have turned into real paranoids. The page on the social network Facebook , dedicated to warnings about the emergence of such psychopaths in the Swiss capital Geneva and its environs, gathered almost 15,000 subscribers in less than a week.

The police warned that Masks could only go through the streets of Geneva during the Escalay holiday (a memorable date of the city’s defense from Catholic invaders in 1602). Halloween is not included in this holiday, so violators will quickly arrest.

In October, the pseudo -core attacked several people in different cities of France. Where these bandits came from, the authorities can only guess. The police suspect that this is a flash mob, who spread from England through YouTube and social networks, reports France 24 .

On the way to France, the Clown Virus visited America. In early October, residents of the American state of California noticed abnormal in the costumes of clowns. According to eyewitnesses, the bandits are armed with baseball bats and mast. The ABC News television channel said that in October at least 20 meetings were registered with the “sinister clowns”, but only in one case the attacker was detained. It was a 14-year-old teenager from Bakersfield, who wanted to scare classmates. The guy was not armed, and in the police stated that he had read on the Internet about "sinister clowns" and decided to join the flash mob.

Soon after, in the French city of Betyun, the police caught a 19-year-old young man, frightening people with an object resembling a large knife. He received for this trick six months of imprisonment conditionally, and the city police still receive reports about the appearance of gangbang clowns on the streets. The city also appeared "warriors" - armed with baseball bats hunters for clowns -hooligans.

Soon, in the city of Poronn, two clowns, armed with fake hammer and knife, intimidated visitors to the shopping center. And in the southwest of France, in Periga, a 16-year-old teenager pursued a girl with a plastic knife in his hand from parking to the gymnasium.

Then the clowns began to appear in different regions of France, like mushrooms after the rain, and were no longer used toy weapons. In Montpellier, 18-year-old Clown beat people with an iron rod. He was sentenced to four months in prison. And in Mason, the police received a message about two hooligans armed with an ax, frightening citizens at a bus stop. After all this, in a number of cities of France, the authorities issued special decisions prohibiting walking on the street in a clown costume in November.