Police arrest suspect in Basel homicide
Published: Friday, Aug 9th 2024, 16:20
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The 32-year-old suspect in the Basel homicide was arrested by the police on Friday afternoon following a manhunt. This was announced by the Basel public prosecutor's office.
The arrest was made at around 2.30 p.m. following a tip-off from a third party on Unterer Rheinweg, it was reported. The public prosecutor's office had previously issued a manhunt.
The arrested Swiss national is "urgently" suspected of killing a 75-year-old woman in an apartment building on Nasenweg in Basel's Breite district on Thursday. The criminal investigation department is now investigating the exact course of events, according to a statement.
The suspect is a repeat offender who was in the University Psychiatric Clinics in Basel. The man, who suffers from schizophrenia, had already stabbed two women and seriously injured an elderly man with a knife in the same neighborhood on November 3, 2014.
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