https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68249985
Police in Switzerland have shot dead a man armed with an axe and a knife who took 15 passengers hostage on a train on Thursday night.
The hostage-taker, reported to be a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, boarded a local train near Yverdon.
He forced the driver to stop the train and to join passengers in the carriage.
Officers stormed the train and "fatally wounded" the man after he attacked them, police reports say. The hostages were all released unharmed.
According to local media, the authorities were alerted by passengers on the train and more than 60 officers were in attendance.
@HebrideanHecate I had some involvement in the asylum process in two different past lives, one in recruitment, and the other in college admissions. It is almost impossible to vet these people. You wouldn't believe the enormity of the task.
@sullybiker Oh, I really would, nightmare.
@HebrideanHecate It is also fraught with peril for the institution. You have to make sure you have everything, because if you employ or enrol an ineligible person suddenly the govt has all the resources in the world to jump on you.
@HebrideanHecate On the flipside of the coin, work and education are part of the toolset of ensuring legitimacy, so bad actors have a lot of motivation to get enrolled in things. They can append it to their immigration papers, for example. Then use it as evidence to obtain other things.