{"id":78086,"date":"2026-06-05T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/78086\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:01:12","slug":"geneva-braces-for-g7-with-4000-soldiers-as-protest-standoff-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/78086\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva braces for G7 with 4,000 soldiers as protest standoff deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 5 June 2026 07:54\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/60f45c3a4080c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Geneva is bracing for next week&#8217;s G7 summit in \u00c9vian, with nearly 4,000 soldiers backing up 1,500 cantonal police across Geneva, Vaud and Valais.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Swiss army will protect Geneva airport, patrol Lake Geneva and reinforce border controls between 12 and 17 June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The anti-G7 coalition has rejected what it calls &#8220;surreal&#8221; conditions on its 14 June march, including a ban on crossing the Mont-Blanc bridge and limits on megaphone volume.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities cite the bridge&#8217;s structural fragility, but organisers say the alternative route is unsafe and impractical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Airspace will be restricted from 10 to 18 June, with heavier air traffic expected around Lausanne.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 5 June 2026 07:54 Geneva is bracing for next week&#8217;s G7 summit in \u00c9vian, with nearly 4,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":["post-78086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-anglophone-radio-station","tag-broadcast","tag-butcher","tag-english-radio","tag-europe","tag-expat","tag-fm","tag-geneva","tag-geneve","tag-internet-radio","tag-lausanne","tag-local-news-geneva","tag-local-radio","tag-media","tag-news","tag-radio-frontier","tag-ski-news","tag-ski-update","tag-snow-report","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-news","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-news","tag-whats-on","tag-world-radio-switzerland","tag-wrs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116696926415024075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}