It's getting to the sad point where, when some nutcase with a knife screams "Allahu akbar" and attacks a bunch of innocent people, too often the reaction on the part of civilized people is, "What, again?"
Well, it's happened again, this time in Switzerland, of all places. This time three people were stabbed, and worse still, the attack happened in front of a group of terrified schoolchildren.
A crazed knifeman shouted “Allahu Akbar” and stabbed three men in front of schoolchildren at a Swiss train station Thursday morning – and authorities labeled the attacker’s rampage a “heinous act of terrorism.”
The madman, a 31-year-old Turkish-Swiss citizen, stabbed three men with a “bladed weapon” just after 8:30 a.m. at the Winterthur train station outside Zurich, the Zurich Cantonal Police said.
One witness told local outlet Blick that the man shouted “Allahu Akbar five or six times in a very emotional and agitated manner” and three men, age 28, 43, and 52, were injured in the rampage.
At least no one was killed, just traumatized. And as for the authorities labeling it a "heinous act of terrorism," one is tempted to reply, "No Schiff, Sherlock." Europe has seen enough of these kinds of rampages in recent years to recognize heinous acts of terrorism when they see them.
A UK Daily Mail report has identified the attacker, who, guess what, was "known to authorities."
The incident at the Winterthur railway station unfolded on Thursday morning when 31-year-old Nesip Dedler allegedly wounded three people with a bladed weapon.
Footage from the scene showed the alleged knifeman running past a group of terrified young school children with a weapon in hand as their teacher tried to shield them.
And:
Security officials said today that suspect Dedeler, a Swiss-Turkish dual national, had contacted police on Sunday, making 'incoherent statements.'
Cops referred him to a psychiatric clinic in Winterthur, but he was released on Wednesday after doctors concluded that he no longer posed a danger to himself or to others, Swiss outlet SRF reports.
'Apparently, this assessment was incorrect,' Fehr stated.
Dedler, a Swiss-Turkish dual-national, was already known to authorities, SRF reported, and had been investigated by authorities in connection with a series of violent incidents at the An'Nur Mosque in Winterthur, which was later forced to close.
According to SRF, Dedler, a jihadist supporter, was born in Switzerland and became a Swiss citizen in 2009. He moved to Turkey in 2024 and returned to Switzerland this month.
This is fast becoming a pattern. The authorities know someone is a nut; they have evidence that this someone is a nut; and yet, they keep being turned back on to the street until something like this happens.
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The bigger problem, of course, is that many of the nations of western Europe have been importing these people for a generation now. Yes, Nesip Dedler was born in Switzerland, but he was apparently radicalized somewhere, and smart money says it happened in Turkey. And there are millions - millions - of "refugees" and "asylum seekers" that have fled their third-world homes in favor of Europe, where they seem determined to turn conditions into what they fled.
When you import the third world, you become the third world.
At least, in this event, there were no deaths. But this won't be the last such atrocity we see. Not in Europe, and likely, not here in the United States, either.
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