The 31-year-old man who stabbed a woman multiple times at a supermarket in northern Nicosia arrived in Cyprus last Thursday, the north’s ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said on Tuesday. Then, this tragic incident happened,” he told the north’s public broadcaster BRT, explaining that the man had travelled to Cyprus on three previous occasions: in 2018, last year, and in February. As such, he said, “the incident should be addressed from a national security perspective, beyond its personal dimension”. Earlier in the day, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman had said that “violence against women constitutes a loss of civilisation”. The incident occurred inside the Metropol supermarket in the suburb of Taskinkoy shortly before midday on Monday, with the man first stabbing the woman, and then stabbing himself.