A teenager is due to go on trial in Switzerland over an antisemitic knife attack on a 50-year-old Orthodox man which left him with life threatening injuries.
The stabbing in Zurich on March 2, 2024 sent shockwaves across the country and prompted national security director Mario Fehr to call for the suspect to be deported.
The trial will be heard on July 1 at Dielsdorf District Court and is expected to last one day with the verdict scheduled for July 7.
Because the accused was 15 at the time of the attack, the hearing will held behind closed doors.
He is a Swiss national with Tunisian roots who was reported to have been radicalised via the internet, resulting in him pledging allegiance to Isis.
As well as charges relating to the street attack in Zurich he faces a number of other attempted murder charges relating to an allegation he tried to break into a synagogue to kill more Jewish people before attacking the 50-year-old.
Further charges also include supporting a criminal organisation and incitement to spread discrimination and hatred.
In the wake of the stabbing, the Swiss Organisation Of Jewish Communities raised concerns about the rise in antisemitic attacks in Switzerland in the wake of October 7.
The group said: "Physical attacks on Jewish people in Switzerland are very rare. The Jewish community has been spared from such life-threatening attacks for the past two decades.
"However, there has been a significant increase in such physical attacks since 7 October."
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