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Man arrested after hospital scissor attack

Stockholm police have arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing a colleague at Lidingö Hospital on Sunday morning.

Published: 21 October 2012 11:09 CEST
Man arrested after hospital scissor attack

The man, who is an employee at the hospital, is suspected of having stabbed a colleague in the chest with a pair of scissors at around 8am on Sunday.

Witnesses spotted the bloodied man outside of the hospital premises on Sunday morning and called the police.

The man was subsequently arrested shortly after 10am at St.Göran’s psychiatric clinic in central Stockholm.

Police reported that the arrest passed off without further incident.

According to media reports the man is also suspected of having taken a stranglehold on another man at the hospital shortly after the scissor attack.

“One has been stabbed in the chest, the other he has grabbed by the throat,” Jonas Palm at Stockholm police told the Aftonbladet daily.

Patients at the hospital were locked in for their own safety while police conducted their search for the suspect.

The victim in the stabbing attack was meanwhile left nursing chest wounds.

The man was taken to Karolinska Hospital in Solna where he is being treated for his injuries. He is reported to be in a stable condition and remained conscious throughout the transfer.

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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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