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2021-06-26 Europe
Somali knifeman yelled ‘Allah Akbar’ before killing three people and wounding six more in street rampage but is arrested alive after brave members of the public fought him off until police arrived
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Police confirmed multiple fatalities after a mass stabbing in Wurzburg on Friday

  • The suspect has been identified as a 24-year-old Somali man living in Wurzburg

  • Videos showed pedestrians holding the attacker at bay with chairs and sticks

  • A witness reported that the knifeman shouted 'Allah Akbar' before the attack
I'm guessing Sudden Jihad Syndrome, though the perp hasn't been ID'd. Ran into a pack, not a herd, didn't he?
He sure did. The first video shows him being held at bay, the second being chased by angry locals. He is very lucky the police stopped him before the crowd did. Deutsche Welle has more:
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SUSPECTED ATTACKER
  • The suspected perpetrator is a 24-year old Somalian man who lives in Würzburg, police said on Twitter

  • He has lived in Würzburg since 2015

  • The suspect was receiving psychiatric care, Herrmann said

  • In the past months, the suspect had drawn attention for "violent actions or readiness," Herrmann said

A MOTIVE FOR THE ATTACK
Investigators are looking into the motivation for the attack. According to a police spokesperson, the suspect is not known to the police for crimes that "lean in the direction of Islamic extremism."

Herrmann said that he is not excluding any possibility: "In any case, there is circumstantial evidence that this could have been an Islamist attack."

Herrmann cited a witness who alleged that the attacker had shouted the common Islamic phrase "Allahu Akbar," which means "God is great."
The Times of Israel points out:
The number of Islamists considered dangerous in Germany rose sharply between 2015 and 2018, according to security services.

But numbers have declined since then, with just 615 considered dangerous by the latest count — compared with 730 in January 2018.

On top of that, there are also 521 people “who have attracted the attention of the security services but have not yet reached the stage of being considered dangerous”.
Update from the Daily Mail at 9:50 a.m. ET:
The suspect had most recently lived in a shelter for the homeless in the city and apparently did not know the victims.

Bavaria's top security official, Joachim Herrmann, said the suspect had been known to police and had been admitted to a psychiatric unit just a few days earlier.

'His condition had been noticed in recent months, including violent mostly peaceful tendencies, and a few days ago he was put into compulsory psychiatric treatment,' Herrmann said.
Posted by Fred 2021-06-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Devout Moslems 

#1 Ein Würzburger, kaum ein Deutscher German;
one of Angela's strays... proper vermin.
A black life! Black look, black everything,
with a no hope of ever his life turnin'.
He yelled 'Allah Ul Al!', and killed for Ba'al,
but 'Motives are unknowable' says Herr Hermann.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-26 09:31||   2021-06-26 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 “Asylum seeker” who arrived in the city in 2015, known wolf, nuts... and this morning’s update informs us he only just started psychiatric treatment.

How many Muslim refugee nutters does Germany have, in addition to the 1136 connected jihadis the authorities are keeping an eye on?
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-26 10:00||   2021-06-26 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The 'authorities' in Germany are like their kin in America more worried about right wing white supremacists.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-26 10:36||   2021-06-26 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Danke schon, Mutti Merkel
Posted by Big Sneamble7634 2021-06-26 11:48||   2021-06-26 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Investigators are looking into the motivation for the attack

Take a guess.
The man went into the kitchen department of a store and asked an assistant where the knives were, regional police president Gerhard Kallert said. He seized a knife and stabbed and killed the saleswoman and two more women in the shop.

He then injured five other women seriously, as well as wounding a child, in a bank and on the street.

He was cornered by passers-by before the police shot him in the thigh, Kallert said.
Posted by Crugum Brown2843 2021-06-26 12:47||   2021-06-26 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 So his primary targets were women. Probably angered at their unholy displays of ankles and wrists.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-06-26 14:23||   2021-06-26 14:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Police found islamist propaganda on his mobile phone and in his place.
Posted by European Conservative 2021-06-26 16:01||   2021-06-26 16:01|| Front Page Top

#8 ^So, no idea why he did it?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-26 16:39||   2021-06-26 16:39|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope the MN Lutherans can import this fine gentleman so he gets the care and support he needs. Who knows -- they may even elect him to congress!
Posted by Liz Warren 2021-06-26 17:08||   2021-06-26 17:08|| Front Page Top

#10 g(r)omgoru
It's a mystery
Posted by European Conservative 2021-06-26 17:22||   2021-06-26 17:22|| Front Page Top

#11 ^😎
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-26 17:24||   2021-06-26 17:24|| Front Page Top

#12 ISIS propaganda btw, which makes it even more mysterious, and of course we don't want to rush to judgment.
Posted by European Conservative 2021-06-26 17:40||   2021-06-26 17:40|| Front Page Top

#13 At least Bavaria's top security official, Herr Joachim Herrmann, openly admits and is willing to consider, which makes him a paragon among German officialdom. You are truly to be congratulated, European Conservative. Would that we had Democrats of his kidney.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-26 18:25||   2021-06-26 18:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Schon dich zu sehen EC.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-26 18:27||   2021-06-26 18:27|| Front Page Top

#15  Schon dich zu sehen EC.

That is German for "Yo, dawg! Wazzup?", in case anyone was wondering.
And yeah, what he said! Good to see that Bavaria has not capsized.
Posted by SteveS 2021-06-26 18:59||   2021-06-26 18:59|| Front Page Top

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