A gunman who taken three worshippers at a mosque in Zurich on Thursday night was a 24-year-old Europe man with Ghanaian origins and no obvious hyperlinks to Islamist radicalism, cops have said.
The suspicious, whom they did not recognize by name, is believed to have murdered a man in Zurich on Weekend. On Thursday he stormed into an Islamic center near the primary place and started out flame on individuals wishing, injuring three men.
His body system was discovered close by soon afterwards, and cops said he showed up to have taken himself. The situation of the three men taken at the mosque was said to be enhancing on Wednesday.
“He is Europe and we don’t know anything about the purposes,” Christiane Lentjes Meili, go of legal research for the Zurich cantonal cops, said of the gunman.
She said the man’s last run-in with the law had been for bicycle robbery seven decades back, and he had stop his job in a store on Saturday.
There were signs that he had taken curiosity about it in occult sciences, Lentjes Meili said. He had a allow for the gun.
He seems to have been familiar with the man murdered on Weekend, who had Southern United states origins and whose body system was remaining in a play area in Zurich.
Onder Gunes, a spokesperson for the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Swiss, said before the shooter’s qualifications became known: “All Muslims are of course stunned that individuals wishing came under flame.
“This would be similarly surprising if done by a Islamic, Christian believers, Hindus or any other spiritual team. We all have to take a position together for serenity. This cannot be permitted to increase.”