GENEVA — A woman has been indicted for attempted murder on
behalf of Daesh over a brutal knife attack in November 2020, according to Swiss
prosecutors. The 29-year-old unnamed woman allegedly attacked two women in a
department store in the southern city of Lugano.
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She has been charged with attempted murder and
violating laws against association with
Al-Qaeda,
Daesh and related groups,
according to the indictment. She was also charged with unlawful prostitution.
The attorney general’s office said the indictment related to a “jihadist knife
attack” and the alleged assailant, a Swiss citizen, “intended to kill her
victims and to commit a terrorist act on behalf of Daesh.”
“The suspect acted wilfully and with particular
ruthlessness. She brutally attacked her randomly selected victims with a knife,
with the aim of killing them and thereby spreading terror throughout the
population on behalf of the ‘Islamic State’,” it said.
One of the two victims sustained serious neck
injuries while the second victim, with help from others at the scene, managed
to overpower her attacker and hold her until police arrived. The attacker was
arrested and detained. Police quickly discovered she had been linked to a 2017 Islamic extremism investigation.
The woman had formed a relationship on social media with a extremist fighter in
Syria and attempted to travel to the war-torn country to
meet him, police alleged at the time. She was stopped by Turkish authorities at
the Syrian border and sent back to
Switzerland, they said, adding that the
woman had suffered from mental health problems and been admitted to a
psychiatric clinic.
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