In the Cathedral of Milan there has been an incident and a brief hostage-taking. A man came on Wednesday with a knife in the Cathedral and threatened a guard. After a few minutes, the attacker was distracted by the hastily summoned forces and overwhelmed, as the news Agency Ansa reported, according to initial findings of the police. The man was arrested. The guard had not been injured, it said. To the backgrounds of the attack, there was initially no information.

escape to the house of God

According to police, the Suspect, posing as a London-born Egyptians, in front of a persons control outside of the Cathedral escaped, and in the house of God ran. There he was kept at the Altar of a security guard of the knife to the neck and forced to kneel. While security forces have poisoned the man, he could be in a careless Moment, overwhelmed. The incident against 13.00 lasted only a few minutes.

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kas/dpa Updated Date: 12 August 2020, 19:26