Swiss law enforcers have found that a woman who stabbed two visitors to a department store in the city of Lugano is a suspect in a terrorism case, police said on November 24 in their Twitter…
“The attack in Ticino: the attacker is known to the police. She is featured in a 2017 police investigation in connection with jihadist terrorism, ”the statement said.
The attack took place earlier that day. According to the preliminary version, the 28-year-old Swiss woman tried to strangle one of the women and stabbed the other in the throat. Other visitors to the department store managed to neutralize the attacker and hold her until the police arrived. The victims received non-life-threatening injuries and injuries.
Law enforcers called the attack “terrorist motivated”. A criminal case has been initiated into the attack.
On November 4, Swiss Federal Intelligence Service spokeswoman Isabelle Graber said that the terrorist threat in the country remains high amid a series of attacks in Europe, but the country’s intelligence has no information about the impending attacks.
In October, attacks on citizens occurred in several cities in France. In mid-October, near Paris, history teacher Samuel Pati was beheaded, who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during the lessons, where the topic of freedom of speech was discussed.
At the end of October, there was an attack in Nice. Three people were killed: two women and a 55-year-old church worker. On October 31, an Orthodox priest was wounded in a shooting in Lyon, France.
A few days later, on 2 November, a shooting attack occurred in six districts of Vienna, including a synagogue in the city center. Five people died, 22 were injured. The city authorities later reported that one of the victims had died in hospital. The terrorist group Islamic State (IS), banned in Russia, claimed responsibility for the incident, specifying that one person acted in all six locations.
On November 17, the Slovak Foreign Ministry called for the creation of an EU Security Union, which will help in the fight against terrorism in Europe.