Shortly after 9 p.m. on Saturday evening, a 31-year-old Moroccan man suddenly attacked an 88-year-old Swiss man at the main railway station, the Zurich cantonal police reported on Tuesday evening. The victim suffered head injuries and had to be taken by ambulance to hospital, where the injuries turned out to be serious.
The alleged perpetrator was detained by passers-by until the police arrived. He was arrested and taken to the public prosecutor’s office.
The exact circumstances of the offence are still unclear and are the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office I for Serious Violent Crime and the Zurich Cantonal Police. The public prosecutor’s office has opened criminal proceedings against the arrested man. The compulsory measures court has since ordered that he be remanded in custody.
The social media account “Szene isch Züri” reported the attack on Monday, albeit with the comment that “someone was killed”. Many commentators labelled the report as “fake news”.
However, police spokesman Kenneth Jones explains why the cantonal police delayed reporting the attack on Saturday evening until Tuesday: “The victim’s injuries only turned out to be serious in hospital, which is why the decision was made to publicise the attack in the first place.”
Attacke am Zürich HB: Marokkaner verletzt alten Mann schwer – 20 Minuten