On the evening of 12 September 2020, a randomly-chosen man was fatally stabbed in a kebab restaurant in

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. The accused, a

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, was known to the Swiss intelligence service as an Islamist and under

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for possible links to

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. The victim was a 29-year-old

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man. While in custody of the

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, the accused is alleged to have confessed that he acted in the name of

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. Swiss authorities suspect a terrorist motive.

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