GenevaLunch

Tribune de Geneve, Infos générales, Fre - A Geneva-based company, Agence Virtuelle, has been measuring the presence of French presidential candidates on the Internet for the past year to determine if Internet buzz is as good an indicator of voting trends as opinion polls. It is, says the company's president, Stéphane Périno. He notes that with 14 million French people online, the population base for the study is good, although there are limitations, such as not knowing who is under 18. Pre-election events such as the rapid rise of François (continue reading)→

WRG-FM - Ticket inspectors on the Geneva tram lines will be given further training, says the TPG (public transport company), which has apologized for an incident where inspectors visited a teenager's home. They kept a friend of his on the tram, insisting that he give them the home address of his friend, then visited the home and handed the tram-rider's mother a fine for SFr100. (continue reading)→

Tribune de Geneve, Geneva page - Sethi Nimatallah, the Saudi Arabian board member of the Geneva mosque's foundation who has caused consternation in the Muslim community by firing four employees, is "not a radical," says one supporter. The Tribune interviewed several members of Geneva's Muslim community to try to understand who Nimtallah is. The man himself remains silent and little is publicly known about him except that he arrived in Geneva a month ago and lives alone. (continue reading)→

TSR, Fre - The abrupt, forced departure of the management of the largest mosque in the Lake Geneva region has caused consternation in the Muslim community. The announcement Sunday that those fired include Hafid Ouardiri, the mosque's high-profile spokesperson, and Mahmoud Fadl, the director of the mosque's school, were promptly followed by statements from the two men's lawyers that they will contest the action. According to the lawyers, the men were given no warning and the redundancies were "politically motived." (continue reading)→