(AFP) Swiss prosecutors requested a lengthy prison term Thursday for a woman who slashed two people in the name of the Islamic State group, while her lawyer argued she was insane and not a “terrorist.”
Lead prosecutor Elisabetta Tizzoni called for the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to be sentenced to 14 years behind bars for “terrorism.”
But she asked that the sentence be suspended and that the attacker be committed to a closed treatment facility for as long as she is deemed a threat.
The 29-year-old woman’s mental state is at the heart of the trial at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, in the Italian-speaking Ticino region where the incident played out.
