Violence Man is injured in a fight on Bern's Schützenmatte

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30.6.2024 - 16:54

The Schützenmatte in Bern near the SBB viaduct and the Reitschule cultural center in a photo from 2015 (archive photo)
The Schützenmatte in Bern near the SBB viaduct and the Reitschule cultural center in a photo from 2015 (archive photo)
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A man was injured with a sharp object on the Schützenmatte in Bern on Sunday night. According to initial findings by the police, the man sustained the injury during an assault.

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According to the regional public prosecutor's office and the Bern cantonal police on Sunday, the police received a report at around 4.30 a.m. that a person had been injured in the square. When the emergency services arrived, they found the man with a cut to his thigh. Third parties attended to him.

The police took the man to hospital. In the course of a follow-up search, police officers stopped three young men matching the description a short time later on Schützenmatte and took them to a police station for further investigation. They were provisionally arrested. The police have issued an appeal for witnesses.