(Swiss Info) Next week the federal prosecutor’s office will assume responsibility for criminal proceedings of two men arrested in Switzerland over alleged ties to the Vienna terrorist attacker.
The transfer of the case from Canton Zurich to the federal level was confirmed by the attorney general’s office on Sunday following reports in the Sonntagsblick newspaper.
The two men, aged 18 and 24, were arrested in the Swiss city of Winterthur last Tuesday — the day after a gunman shot four people dead in the Austrian capital. Later in the week, the Swiss federal police confirmed that both men were already under criminal investigation for suspected terror-related offences.
