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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 25 July 2017

Hunt is on for chainsaw attacker who wounded 5 in Swiss city

BERLIN (AP) — A man Swiss media reported that
armed with a chainsaw Wrousis was a CSS client.
wounded five people at Switzerland has a system
a health insurer’s office that requires residents to
Monday in the northern have mandatory health in-
Swiss city of Schaffhausen, surance with private health
police said, triggering a insurers. Prosecutor Peter
manhunt for a suspect de- Sticher said Wrousis has two
scribed as aggressive and previous convictions for of-
psychologically unstable. fenses against weapons
Suspect Franz Wrousis, 51, laws, one from 2014 and
has two previous convic- 2016. He didn’t elaborate
tions for weapons offenses or say where they were
and no fixed residence, au- committed, but said Wrou-
thorities said. A dog-walker sis has no previous record in
said she had seen him in the small northern canton
the woods near Schaffhau- (state) of Schaffhausen,
sen for the last few weeks. near the German border.
The attacker wounded Wrousis was previous-
two insurance agency ly registered as living in
employees in their ground- Graubuenden canton, in
floor office in the old town Switzerland’s southeast. He
of Schaffhausen on Mon- apparently lives mostly in
day morning, said Christina woods, Landolt said. These undated images released by the KAPO Schaffhausen shows the alleged attacker who
Wettstein, a spokeswoman Police released old photos injured several people in Schaffhausen Switzerland Monday, July 24, 2017. An unkempt man
for insurer CSS. Authorities of Wrousis standing among armed with a chainsaw wounded five people Monday at an office building in the northern Swiss
said their lives were not trees in a green T-shirt and city of Schaffhausen and then fled, police said. A manhunt was on for him.
in danger. Revising ear- black jeans. They described (KAPO Schaffhausen via AP)
lier statements, police said him as being about 1 meter him walking along a street that the suspect was be- in woods south of Schaff-
one CSS employee was 90 centimeters tall (6.2 feet) in a green jacket carrying lieved to be driving. They hausen, said she saw the
seriously injured and the and said he is now partly a large black bag, which did not elaborate on its suspect several times in
other was slightly injured. bald and unkempt. they said may have con- condition or say if anything the last few weeks. “I talk-
Another three people They later released an- tained the chainsaw. else was found in it. ed to him a few times and
were slightly injured in the other photo of Wrousis, On Monday afternoon, po- Schaffhausen is a city of walked by his car every
attack, police said, but which they said was taken lice found the Volkswagen about 36,000 people north day with our dog,” said Kar-
there was no information immediately before the minivan with registration of Zurich. Therese Karrer, rer, who lives in the village
on them. The perpetrator attack. The image shows plates from Graubuenden who often walks her dog of Uhwiesen.q
had fled by the time police
arrived. Authorities sealed
off the city’s old town until Gard parents drop legal fight, agree to let him die
mid-afternoon but kept up
their manhunt.
Swiss police ruled out ter- By CAROLINE SPIEZIO son die. At an emotional not breathe unaided, had under two weeks’ time.”
rorism. “This was first and JILL LAWLESS court hearing, a lawyer for irreversible muscular dam- “We are about to do the
foremost a crime against DANICA KIRKA the baby’s parents, Chris age. Both parents wept in hardest thing that we will
this insurance agency,” se- Associated Press Gard and Connie Yates, the packed courtroom at ever have to do, which
nior regional police official LONDON (AP) — said the couple was with- the High Court in London is to let our beautiful little
Ravi Landolt told reporters, The parents of Charlie drawing a bid to have as lawyer Grant Armstrong Charlie go,” he said.
though there was no exact Gard, whose battle to Charlie sent to the United made the announcement, Gard and Yates, who are
word on the suspect’s mo- get their critically ill baby States, where a doctor his voice breaking. in their 30s and from Lon-
tive. experimental treatment had offered to try to treat “This case is now about don, have fought fero-
“We have information that stirred international sym- his rare genetic condition. time,” Armstrong said. ciously for their son, who
this man is dangerous, that pathy and controversy, The decision came after “Sadly, time has run out.” was born in August 2016
he is aggressive and, shall dropped their legal effort new medical tests showed Outside court, Chris Gard with mitochondrial deple-
we say, psychologically Monday, saying tearfully the 11-month-old, who has said that Charlie “won’t tion syndrome, a rare ge-
disturbed,” Landolt added. that it was time to let their brain damage and can- make his first birthday in just netic disease. q