Swiss authorities open criminal investigation over menacing school intruder

Canton Neuchâtel’s public prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal investigation into the “threatening” young man who broke into a primary school in Cortaillod on Friday.

The suspect is a young man of Algerian origin, aged around 25.

The man was known by several different identities and to several police forces in other European countries, mainly for acts of violence, the public prosecutor’s office and the cantonal police said on Saturday. …