After the stabbing on Wednesday in Switzerland, the first details about the alleged perpetrator have emerged. The 43-year-old Spaniard probably only arrived a few days ago, the public prosecutor’s office in the canton of Aargau says.
According to Swiss media reports, he applied for asylum on Monday, but withdrew it a day later. According to the Public Prosecution Service, there are no indications of a terrorist background. The man behaves mentally abnormally.
As reported, the Spaniard injured six people and himself with a stabbing weapon in the small town of Zofingen on Wednesday afternoon. The police received an emergency call that a man was randomly stabbing passers-by. He was initially located at the train station and then moved to an educational center.
Here you see a tweet from the Aargau police.
Attacker arrested after two hours
“We were having class and suddenly the door opened and a teacher came in to warn us. “She said she was attacked,” an 18-year-old student told the newspaper “Blick.” The woman had a wound in her neck. After the emergency call, security and rescue workers rushed to the scene to treat the injured and cordon off the area around the train station. A school was temporarily evacuated.
The suspected attacker barricaded himself in a building but was arrested after about two hours. He was also injured and was treated in a hospital.
Anxious hours
These were anxious hours for the population. Police initially could not rule out that a coordinated attack was underway and called on people to stay at home and close doors and windows. Early in the evening the signal was finally given: there was only one perpetrator on the run.
Source: Krone
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