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The police in Switzerland identified the young Swiss, who yesterday Tuesday grabbed a woman by the neck and injured a second with a knife in a department store in Lugano, like a known jihadist.
Federal prosecutors in the canton of Ticino, in the Italian-speaking south, described the incident as a terrorist attack and launched an investigation.
“Fedpol knows the perpetrator from police investigations in 2017 in jihadist circles,” the Swiss federal police said on Twitter.
The 28-year-old perpetrator who lives in the area is in custody after a bystander managed to immobilize her until the police arrived at the scene of the attack. Swiss media, citing eyewitnesses, reported that the woman screamed that she belonged to the Islamic State during the attack.
One of the victims is seriously injured, but his life is not in danger. The second woman is slightly injured.
Norman Gobi, Ticino Prime Minister, stressed that Switzerland is a peaceful country and the canton a safe area. “All the more reason to condemn this unreasonable violence, which is instigated by extremism and has no place in our community,” he added.
Switzerland has so far escaped major jihadist attacks, such as those that prompted France and Germany this month to call for stricter borders with the EU, after Islamist insurgents killed eight people in Paris, Nice and Vienna in a month.
However, hundreds of people have been identified in the country who are considered a threat and others who have traveled to countries devastated by war.
Two men have been arrested in the city of Winterthur, near Zurich, this month for alleged links to the perpetrator of the Nov. 2 jihadist attack in Vienna that left four dead. The two detainees reportedly visited the author of the attack in July.
In September, a man described by the Swiss media as the “Emir of Windertour” and considered one of the main jihadists residing in Switzerland was sentenced to 50 months in prison for his ties to the Islamic State.
Federal prosecutors have also said they are investigating whether the knife attack on a Portuguese in September in the western Swiss city of Morges had “terrorist motives.”
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