VIENNA – A senior official in the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, Christoph Blocher, escaped unharmed after being attacked by a man carrying a knife after a political debate in Zurich on Saturday, Zurich police said.
The 75-year-old is the party’s strategy chief and head of the Committee Against a Creeping EU Entry, which opposes closer ties with the European Union. He was leaving a political debate about Switzerland’s relationship with the EU at a Zurich hotel on Saturday afternoon when an unidentified man accosted him, the SonntagsBlick weekly reported earlier on Sunday.
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Blocher told the paper the man had asked him if he remembered him before swinging a punch at him. The attacker appeared disoriented, he said.
The man was arrested by Zurich police, who declined to give any details on the attacker.
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