The police detained a man on Friday (November 21) eveningwho in Bratislava’s Petržalka while trying to steal in the grocery store, he injured a saleswoman with a knife. Silvia Šimková, spokeswoman for the Regional Directorate of the Police (KR PZ) in Bratislava, informs about this.
“Due to the quick reaction of the police officers and the execution of a thorough operational search, the man was detained at 8:35 p.m. and escorted to the police department for the purpose of performing the necessary actions,” she specified. The circumstances of the case are being investigated, the police will provide more information when the procedural situation allows.
The detained man wanted to go through the checkout area in the grocery store early Friday evening with goods for which he didn’t want to pay. When asking the food seller to show the contents of her bag he physically attacked her with a cold weapon, which he used to cause a cut wound on her hand. The saleswoman was taken to the hospital for treatment with injuries.
