Assailant in Swiss Knife Attack Was Jihadist: Police

Assailant in Swiss Knife Attack Was Jihadist: Police
A police car in the area where a stabbing occurred in the department store, in Lugano, Switzerland, on Nov. 24, 2020. Ti-Press/Keystone via AP
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ZURICH—A Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday was a known jihadist who fell in love with an Islamic terrorist online and tried in vain to meet him in Syria, police said on Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors have called the incident in the Italian-speaking southern canton of Ticino a suspected terrorist attack and taken charge of the investigation.