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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 24 OcTOber 2017
Well-known Moscow journalist stabbed by attacker; in coma

Tatyana Felgenhauer, edi- of the state-controlled Gaz-
tor-in-chief Alexei Venedik- prom natural gas giant, its
tov said. She is best known programs have often been
for co-hosting a popular critical of the government,
morning radio show and irking many in Russian politi-
also serves as deputy edi- cal and business circles. Its
tor. hosts and journalists have
Felgenhauer, 32, under- previously reported death
went surgery at a hospital threats.
and was put in medically- Another popular Ekho
induced coma as doctors Moskvy host, Yulia Latyni-
determine the best course na, fled Russia in Septem-
of treatment, he said. ber following a suspected
The attacker, after being arson attack on her car.
apprehended, told inves- The Investigative Commit-
tigators he had been in tee, the top state investi-
“telepathic contact with gative agency that deals
Felgenhauer” for five years. with high-profile crimes,
The station said the attack identified the attacker as
was clearly premeditated. the 48-year-old Boris Grits. It
To get into the building, said Grits, who has Russian
the assailant sprayed gas and Israeli citizenship, left
in the face of a security for Israel in 2003 and came
An unidentified man who reportedly stabbed journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer is seen detained in guard at the entrance on back to Moscow a month
the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station office in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Oct. 23 the ground floor then went ago.It said Grits told investi-
2017. up to the 14th floor, where gators he had a “telepath-
(Vitaly Ruvinsky, Ekho Moskvy photo via AP) the station’s studios are. ic contact” with Felgen-
“The man came here on hauer since 2012 and had
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA dio station was stabbed ists and opposition activists purpose. He knew where a personal grudge against
Associated Press in the throat Monday by in Moscow. he was going,” Venediktov her. The committee said he
MOSCOW (AP) — A well- an attacker who burst into The assailant broke into the told reporters. would remain in custody
known journalist for Rus- her studio — the latest in a Ekho Moskvy offices and While Ekho Moskvy is major- and undergo a psychiatric
sia’s top independent ra- string of attacks on journal- stabbed deputy editor ity-owned by a media arm expertise.q

Switzerland: eight people hurt
during ax attack in small town

BERLIN (AP) — Eight people cars outside a gas sta-
were hurt, at least one of tion before police shot at,
them seriously, during an Tasered and arrested the
ax attack in a small Swiss suspect.
town that ended with the The 17-year-old arrived
suspect’s arrest, police said in Switzerland in mid-
Monday. 2013, prosecutor Stephan
Officials said concerns Ramseyer said. He was in
about the suspected as- an apprenticeship and
sailant, a 17-year-old Lat- was legally resident in Swit-
vian boy who was arrested zerland.
about an hour after the Earlier this year, local au-
attack started on Sunday thorities were twice tipped
evening in the northeast- off to “conspicuous behav-
ern town of Flums, had pre- ior” by the youth, Ramseyer
viously been reported to said.
authorities. They had con- His vocational school re-
cluded that he didn’t pose ported that he had alleg-
a serious risk. edly talked about violence.
The assailant first attacked Local officials assessed the
a couple in a central boy and determined that
square in Flums Sunday he had made “no substan-
evening, Sigi Rueegg, the tive threats” and didn’t
deputy police chief of St. pose “any acute danger,”
Gallen canton (state) po- he added.
lice told reporters. The violent fantasies “could
Their eight-month-old be connected with this act,
baby fell out of a pram but which could point to a per-
wasn’t attacked. Passers- sonality disorder,” Ramsey-
by tried to intervene and er said.He added, howev-
were themselves hurt. er, that officials haven’t yet
The attacker stole a car, questioned the suspect.
which he crashed, then Authorities plan to seek his
continued on foot. He at- detention on suspicion of
tacked two people in their attempted homicide. q