I kill because I’m at war with women, knife attacker says – Punch Newspapers

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A Moroccan man told a court in Finland he was “in war against women” when he went on a rampage in the Finnish city of Turku in 2017, stabbing two women to death and wounding eight more people, local media reported.

Abderrahman Bouanane, at the time a 22-year-old asylum seeker, spoke in district court on Tuesday, where he is on trial on charges of murder and attempted murder “with terrorist intent.”

Bouanane told the court that before the attacks in August 2017, he had visited mosque and recorded a video in which he talked about U.S.-led air strikes in Syria and the fight for Islamic State.

When he started the attacks on the market square, he said, he couldn’t control himself.

“I honestly felt like I was controlled remotely… The idea was to keep attacking as long as a head falls,” Bouanane said via an interpreter, according to the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat’s…



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