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Pig heads fly in grisly Swiss choc attack

A 41-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday evening on suspicion of having thrown bloodied pig heads onto chocolate displays at a famous confectioner’s in Luzern.

Published: 21 March 2012 12:17 CET

Shortly before midday on Tuesday, the man entered the Bachmann store at Luzern station and, having looked surreptitiously about him, threw several pig heads right into the praline section, news website Blick reported.

Having taken the heads from a plastic bag, he then left a trail of blood behind him as he exited the shop.

“Not again!” a shop assistant, Almedina K., exclaimed.

The man had carried out similar attacks on the business twice before.

Two hours later he appeared again at another Bachmann store in Alpenstrasse, where he offloaded more of his revolting cargo.

Bachmann’s managing director, Mattias Bachmann, has apologised to customers and assured them that all the shops have been entirely cleaned and all of the chocolates removed.

“The motive of this man is still unclear. We have not received any threats,” he said.

Police arrested the suspect, a 41-year-old Swiss man, at his home in Kriens at around 6pm, Blick said. 

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BACHMANN

Pig head thrower was politician’s nephew

A man arrested in Luzern this week for hurling pig heads at chocolate displays was the mentally ill nephew of Swiss parliamentarian Otto Ineichen, it has emerged.

Published: 23 March 2012 11:39 CET

Earlier this week, a 41-year-old man threw severed pig heads into the chocolate displays in three Bachmann confectionary shops in the central Swiss city.

Following the man’s arrest on Tuesday night, Liberal Party member of parliament Otto Ineichen was shocked to realise that the perpetrator was in fact his own nephew, Reto.

“I have not had contact with Reto for many years,” he said. “So I cannot judge his condition.”

Ineichen apologised to the Bachmann family, while heaping praise on their long-standing confectionary business. 

“This is a tragic incident,” he said.

Bachmann had employed Reto, who suffers from schizophrenia, as part of a disability employment programme some two years previously, when he had spent several months cleaning the display counters.

Anger at having lost his position is thought to be have provided the motivation for the attacks.

Reto has now been taken in to a closed psychiatric clinic.

“It’s good that he’s in custody now,” confectioner Matthias Bachmann told Blick. “The employees were scared and terrified.”

Bachmann said he is now considering making small, smiling, chocolate pig heads for sale in his shops.

Meanwhile, the police have yet to confirm where the severed pig heads came from.

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