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Two women stabbed in Stockholm suburb

Police have detained a 28-year-old man on suspicion of having stabbed two 20-year-old women Thursday night in the north Stockholm suburb of Hässelby.

Published: 29 July 2011 08:05 CEST
Two women stabbed in Stockholm suburb

According to police the suspect neither denies nor acknowledges the attack.

Two 20-year-old women were injured, one seriously, after being attacked by knife-wielding stranger.

The attack took place in a square in Hässelby in northern Stockholm. The man, with knife in hand, was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

”He does not acknowledge or deny the crimes,” Mats Sundberg, a Västerort police station commander, told the TT news agency.

One of the two friends was seriously injured after being stabbed in the abdomen and underwent immediate surgery Thursday.

”The plaintiff will survive, it looks good for her. The operation has gone well,” Västerort deputy police Anders Djurestad told the TT.

The other woman, who suffered knife injuries in her back, was in stable condition and able to talk to police.

The emergency call for the stabbing at Ormängstorget came in at 7.30pm Thursday.

A suspected 28-year-old man, not known for previous criminal activities, was arrested five minutes later.

When authorities arrived at the square, he was found sitting with a knife in his hand. The weapon was confiscated at the arrest.

The motive remains unclear.

”There seems to have been no previous contact between the women and man. It looks like a case of unprovoked violence,” Diana Sundin, a spokesperson for the Stockholm Police, told the TT.

After speaking with several witnesses in the area, police lifted the cordon around the square at 9pm.

This attack comes on the heels of another seemingly unprovoked stabbing in northern Stockholm.

Just over two weeks ago, on July 11, an 18-year-old man was found stabbed to death on a football field in the same area.

A 29-year-old man is currently being held on suspicion of manslaughter and police claim there are no details of wrangling or quarrels between the offender and the 18-year-old victim and his friends before the attack.

According to police spokesperson Sundin, there is no link between the two events.

”The person who committed the (fatal) crime is being held and there is no link to this suspected offender. They are two separate events that are not connected to each other as far as we can see,” said Sundin.

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STABBING

French prosecutor says Paris suburb stabbing treated as suspected terror attack

French anti-terrorist investigators said on Saturday they have taken over the probe into an attack by a knife-wielding man in a park south of Paris.

Published: 5 January 2020 07:18 CET
French prosecutor says Paris suburb stabbing treated as suspected terror attack
A police forensic team at the scene of the attack in Villejuif. Photo: Christophe Archambault/AFP
The man killed one person walking with his wife before being shot dead by police.
 
Police said the man, identified as 22-year-old Nathan C., attacked several people around lunchtime Friday in the suburb of Villejuif and they initially treated the incident as a criminal not terrorist incident.
   
But in a statement, the French national anti-terrorist investigation body (PNAT) said that while Nathan C. was known to have had psychiatric problems, worrying evidence had also emerged about his conversion to Islam and radicalisation.
   
“Investigations over the past few hours have allowed us to establish that he was certainly radicalised (and to show)… organised preparation for his move towards the act,” the statement said.
   
Additionally, they “showed a murderous path, thought out and chosen, of such a nature as to gravely disturb public order by intimidation or terror,” it said.
 
 
Earlier a local magistrate told a press conference that Nathan C. had shouted the Muslim invocation “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) during the attack.
   
Nathan C. converted to Islam in mid-2017 and is believed to have suffered serious psychiatric problems since he was child, with several spells in hospital. In June he stopped receiving the treatment he was being given.
   
Police found literature characterised as Salafist in a bag after the attack, Philippe Bugeaud of the Paris investigative police told the press conference.
   
There was also a letter “with phrases fairly typical of a Muslim man who self-flagellates and who knows that he may be about to take the plunge,” Bugeaud added.
   
Nathan C.'s apartment in Paris also bore “every sign that it was going to be no longer lived in,” magistrate Laure Beccuau said.
   
Nathan C. apparently spared a first person who said he was a Muslim and had recited a prayer in Arabic, she said.
   
He then attacked the couple, killing the husband and seriously injuring the wife before wounding a woman jogger in the back. Beccuau said the two women had now left hospital.
   
France remains on high alert after being hit by a string of attacks by jihadist extremists since 2015, with more than 250 people killed in total.
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