In January 2019, a 22-year-old man was stabbed to death in a Geneva parking lot, his attacker himself barely 18 years old. The tragedy is all the more shocking as the teen murderer was already under ...

Unsolved crimes or cold cases benefit the ongoing advances in forensic medicine. But in Switzerland, the 30-year statute of limitations that de facto puts an end to investigations often leaves the ...

How could being an orphan mean forced commitment to psychiatric hospitals for young adults? In Switzerland, in the 1950s, a psychiatric clinic could have one third of so-called "socially ill" ...

Do you ask your doctor to prove he’s qualifiedwhen you show up for an appointment? Of coursenot. And yet, bogus doctors exist. In this report,the victims of medical charlatans describe theirordeals ...

How and why does one become a jihadist? When exactly does one cross over the tipping point and fall into horror territory? How can a terrorist deny the humanity of those he is about to kill? In ...

Five years after the defeat of the Islamic State, 70,000 men, women and children from around the world are still detained by the Kurds in northeastern Syria. The security situation in the camps where ...

Running away from home or foster care leave indelible marks in the emotional and family lives of youth. For teens, it is alwas a cry for help. For their parents, anguish gives way to ...

Thefts, beatings, torture, murder sometimes... Violent crimes by teen gang members seem to have gone out of control. Violence is trivialized by social networks that blur the line between real life ...

Is generalized DNA profiling for tomorrow? DNA has been used for nearly 20 years by the police and the justice system to solve serious criminal cases. We'll see how it is done in the field and how it ...

He had everything going for him: sumptuous mistresses, despite a sham marriage, the prestige of power over Spain, whose  democratic transition he had ensured after Francos's military dictatorship. ...