Swiss police arrest Australian man over Zurich stabbing
A 28-year-old Australian man suspected of stabbing and seriously injuring a 41-year-old man in a shop in central Zurich has been arrested in Switzerland.
The motive for the attack on Saturday is still under investigation, police said in a statement.
The Australian was arrested at the scene and the victim was taken to hospital.
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Prosecutors could provide more information on Monday, a police spokesperson said.
Stabbings have caused alarm in Europe in recent days, with an Algerian man arrested on Saturday in Mulhouse, France, over a deadly knife attack while a Syrian refugee was detained over a stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial.
On Thursday, a teenage attacker killed two women with a knife in a shopping centre in the Czech city of Hradec Kralove.
A Syrian asylum seeker was arrested on February 15 on suspicion of going on a stabbing rampage in southern Austria.
Originally published on Reuters
