The Swiss parliament presidents have reacted to the fatal attack on the British Tory MP David Amess (69). “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the fatal attack,” said National Council President Andreas Aebi (62) and Council of States President Alex Kuprecht (63) in a statement distributed on Sunday.
In a tweet in English, the two Swiss parliamentarians expressed their condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the victim.
The exact background of the crime was initially unclear. The investigators announced on Saturday that the first investigations had shown “a possible motivation in connection with Islamist extremism”.