Chainsaw attack suspect was armed, but didn’t resist arrest
BERLIN — The suspect in a chainsaw attack on a health insurer’s office in Switzerland was carrying a bag with two crossbows when he was detained, but didn’t resist arrest, police and prosecutors said Wednesday.
Suspect Franz Wrousis was arrested Tuesday evening in Thalwil, a lakeside town south of Zurich and some 63 kilometres (nearly 40 miles) by road from the scene of Monday morning’s attack in Schaffhausen. Police said they don’t yet know how and when Wrousis got there.
The 50-year-old suspect was arrested after police was tipped off by locals. Prosecutor Peter Sticher said Wrousis was alone and on foot at the time of his arrest, and that “the arrest went without resistance — he behaved properly and co-operatively.”
Sticher said at a news conference in Schaffhausen that Wrousis was carrying a plastic bag with two loaded crossbows and two sharpened wooden slats.