On Saturday afternoon, police were called to a shopping mall in Kirchberg due to a physical altercation between several clients.

According to preliminary information, a man began making provocative remarks at one of the checkouts. When another client addressed the agitator, he attacked him with pepper spray, spraying two further people in the process.

Shopping mall security guards were able to detain the man until police arrived at the scene. He was then arrested and presented to an examining magistrate by order of the prosecutor's office.

The three people hit with pepper spray received treatment from shopping mall personnel at the scene of the altercation.