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Police hunt knifeman after Örebro attack

A woman in central Sweden is in hospital after having been stabbed in the throat with a sharp object on Wednesday evening.

Published: 25 October 2012 07:01 CEST

“She has been stabbed with a sharp object and we have filed a warrant for a suspect’s arrest,” confirmed Kenneth Johanneson of the local police to daily Dagens Nyheter (DN).

Police received a call just before 9pm on Wednesday evening. They were quickly on the scene in a residential area of Örebro in central Sweden.

The man and woman involved in the incident are described as “having been in a relationship with each other”. They are both reportedly between 20 and 25 years old.

“They used to be in a relationship but are no longer living together,” said Johanneson to local paper Nerikes Allehanda (NA).

Officers have carried out an extensive search of the area, according to the police:

“We carried out a search at the suspect’s house but he wasn’t there and there was nothing in the flat that could tie him to the incident,“ Johanneson told DN shortly before midnight on Wednesday.

After carrying out a number of raids in the attempt to locate the suspect, police issued a description of the man to the nearby counties.

Johannneson was not willing to disclose to NA exactly where in western Örebro the incident occurred.

“We are looking for a specific person and I won’t tell you where we are searching. I am not telling you any more,“ Johanneson told the paper.

The woman is still in hospital but police say that her injuries are not as severe as was at first believed and that her condition is stable.

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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.

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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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