Medical experts in Russia concluded that a man who attacked worshippers in a Moscow synagogue is fit to stand trial. The decision contradicts earlier claims by his family that Alexander Koptsev was mentally ill. On Jan. 11, Koptsev went on a knife-wielding rampage in the Bolshaya Bronnaya Street Synagogue in Moscow, injuring eight people.
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