(AFP) A Swiss woman undergoing psychiatric treatment showed no remorse on Monday when she went on trial accused of trying to murder two women in the name of the Islamic State group.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of committing a “terrorist act” on November 24, 2020 — a knife attack in the plush Manor department store in Lugano, in southern Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino region.
One of the two victims — who was attending the trial — suffered a serious neck injury. The second sustained wounds on one hand and managed, with others, to control the assailant until the police arrived.
“If I could go back, I would do it better … with accomplices,” the 29-year-old told Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, also in Ticino.
