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An antisemitic knife attack in Zurich

Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service records a knife attack against an Orthodox Jewish person in Zurich on 2 March 2024.

Editorial illustration of an emergency response on a Zurich street.
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Timeline

  1. 2 March 2024: An Orthodox Jewish person is attacked with a knife.
  2. 2024: Two federal assessments discuss the attack. One records that the case had yet to reach trial at publication.

What police documented

The intelligence service described the perpetrator as a radicalised teenager in its 2024 assessment. A separate federal report discussed the attack in its review of jihadist radicalisation and stated that court proceedings had yet to take place at the time of publication.

What the figures cover

The records describe the Zurich case within a broader security assessment. They give no local series for comparable attacks or case-specific tally of policing costs. Federal Intelligence Service security assessment