Woman stabbed at grocery’s kosher section in Ottawa

Prosecutors in Canada on Thursday charged a 71-year-old man with stabbing and severely wounding a Jewish woman at the kosher section of a grocery store in Ottawa, in an assault that Jewish groups said was likely antisemitic.

The man, identified by B’nai Brith Canada as Joseph Rooke, was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a dangerous weapon, police said in a statement. The victim and defendant were not known to each before the incident, the police also said. The statement and media reports did not say how the defendant pleaded.

The man entered the store with another person, according to a CBC report on the incident. He allegedly stabbed the victim and was arrested in the store. The woman was taken to the hospital in critical but stable condition, the CBC reported.

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