(Swiss Info) The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has filed an indictment against a Swiss woman who attacked two people with a knife in a department store in the Swiss city of Lugano in 2020.
The 29-year-old, who lives in canton Ticino in Italian-speaking southern Switzerland, has been charged with attempted murder and violation of the Al-Qaeda/IS Act, the OAG said on Wednesday.
It claims the suspect “intended to kill her victims and to commit a terrorist act on behalf of Islamic State (IS).”
According to the indictment, 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’ (IS), triggering widespread reports in the media and thus propagating IS ideology,” it stated.
