Zurich Court Sentences Antisemitic Stabber to Locked Care

Zurich's Dielsdorf juvenile court said Tuesday it convicted a teenager over the March 2024 stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich and imposed a one-year youth-custody sentence, the maximum available because he was 15 at the time of the attack. The court said the conviction covered multiple attempted murders because he had first tried to enter a synagogue to kill Jews, then attacked a visibly Jewish man after finding the doors locked. It also convicted him of supporting a criminal or terrorist organization and hate-related offenses. The custodial sentence was suspended in favor of closed placement, outpatient treatment and personal supervision.