The attacker in Knife assault identified as a Jihadist, Swiss police
The attacker in Knife assault identified as a Jihadist, Swiss police
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In a recent Knife attack in Switzerland by a women, Swiss police have identified the Swiss woman as a Jihadist. She knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday. Federal prosecutors have called the incident in the Italian-speaking southern canton of Ticino a suspected terrorist attack and taken charge of the investigation. 

"The assailant is know to Fedpol from police investigations in 2017 with a jihadist background," the Federal Office of Police tweeted. The suspect, a 28-year-old woman who lives in the area, was in custody after passersby blocked her until police could arrive. Swiss media pointed the witnesses as saying she called out that she belonged to jihadist group Islamic State during the attack. One victim is serious but not life-threatening injuries and another was lightly injured. Neutral Switzerland country has so far been spared the kind of large-scale jihadist attacks that prompted France and Germany this month to push for tighter European Union borders after suspected Islamist militants killed eight people in Paris, Nice and Vienna within a month. 

In September, a man Swiss media duplicated the "Emir of Winterthur" and described as a leading Islamist militant in Switzerland was sentenced to 50 months in prison for ties to Islamic State. Federal prosecutors have remembered that a fatal stabbing of a Portuguese man in September in the town of Morges, in western Switzerland, was still being investigated for a possible "terrorist motive". A Swiss-Turkish national has been arrested. 

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