>BBC News Online: World: Europe >Tuesday, 4 December, 2001, 19:44 GMT > >Swiss police detain famous conductor >It's emerged that one of the world's most famous conductors was detained >by police in Switzerland on suspicion of being a terrorist threat. >Reports said the French conductor, Pierre Boulez, who's seventy-five was >dragged by police from his hotel bed in the Swiss town of Basle. >They detained him for three hours and temporarily confiscated his >passport. >A BBC correspondent says police were acting on information that Mr >Boulez had once said in the nineteen-sixties that he thought opera >houses should be blown up -- comments which had placed him on a list of >possible terrorist suspects. >The organisers of the music festival the European Month of Music at >which Mr Boulez was conducting have demanded an apology from the >authorities. >>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service >http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/europe/newsid_1692000/1692329.stm
