Apparently there was a terror attack in a department store in Switzerland.
Lugano
- A woman
attacked two passers-by with a knife
in a department store in
Lugano
in the Swiss canton of Ticino on Tuesday afternoon.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office assumes a
"suspected terrorist attack,"
as she wrote on Twitter.
On November 24th, 2020 there was an alleged #terroristically motivated attack on several people in a department store in #Lugano.
In this context, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal case.
- fedpol (@fedpolCH) November 24, 2020
Terror in Lugano (Switzerland): The head of the authorities sees a connection to attacks in France
According to the
police
, a 28-year-old Swiss woman attacked the other women for reasons that were initially unknown.
According to a report by the
Ticino Online
portal
, two customers then intervened and made the attacker "unable to move".
It was a couple that
grabbed
the
knife
“by the hair”, writes the tabloid
Blick
.
The director of the Swiss Federal Police Office, Nicoletta della Valle, said the attack did not surprise her.
There is probably a connection to the incidents in France.
The assassin was "radicalized" and already on record, it said at a press conference.
(
dpa / fn
)
