According to information from the Swiss Federal Police Office (Fedpol), the alleged perpetrator of the knife attack in Lugano had contact with a Syrian. In 2017 she tried to travel to Syria, but was stopped at the Turkish-Syrian border. The woman fell in love with a jihadist fighter and tried to travel to him in 2017, as the Fedpol wrote. She was stopped at the Turkish-Syrian border and sent back to Switzerland.
The person who allegedly attacked two women in a Lugano department store yesterday evening suffered from mental health problems and was admitted to a psychiatric institution on their return to Switzerland, the Fedpol wrote. She has not appeared in investigations with a terrorist background at Fedpol since 2017.
