Police in Denmark have arrested a man suspected in the stabbing attack on a Jewish woman in Sweden, like reported by inn.com.
Swedish authorities had released a warrant for the man’s arrest Tuesday, after a Jewish woman was stabbed nine times in the city of Helsingborg, roughly 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) northwest of Malmo.
The victim, a woman in her 60s who is the wife of the leader of the local Jewish community, was on her way to work Tuesday morning when she was attacked.
The assailant stabbed the woman nine times, then fled the scene, eventually escaping to Denmark.
Authorities identified the suspect as a Muslim man known to local police.
On Wednesday, Danish police announced that the suspect had been taken into custody. He is expected to be extradited to Sweden for prosecution.
While the local Jewish community and Israel’s foreign ministry said the attack appeared to be anti-Semitic, investigators are not presently treating the incident as a hate crime.
