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2024-08-25 Europe
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ISIS claims responsibility for German festival attack, Syrian knifeman turns himself in
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Islamic State (IS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia) group has claimed responsibility for a knife attack at a festival in the city of Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia) in western Germany. Its representatives reported this on social media.
The terrorists' statement is quoted by Reuters. They claim that they carried out the attack "in retaliation" for Muslims in Palestine and around the world.
However, the group's representatives did not provide any evidence to support their claims. Journalists noted that it remained unclear how close the connection between ISIS and whoever carried out the attack in Solingen was.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the evening of August 23 in Solingen an unknown person attacked passers-by with a knife. The attacker struck indiscriminately and then fled the scene. As a result, at least three people died and eight more were injured.
Witnesses said the suspect had "Arabic features." Police began searching for the attacker.
As part of the investigation into this case, the police detained a 15-year-old teenager. According to preliminary information, he was not the direct perpetrator of the attack. The young man was accused of failing to report a crime being prepared.
Approximately 200 meters from the scene of the attack, law enforcement officers found a knife that could have been used by the criminal who committed the attack.
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A search was conducted in a refugee center by police officers from the special operations command after a terrorist attack and the death of three people in the German city of Solingen. This was reported on August 24 by the Bild newspaper.
The refugee shelter is located 300 meters from the place where the attacker attacked people with a knife. The murder weapon - a knife with which the attacker killed three people - was found 150 meters from the shelter.
A dog handler with a dog was brought in to search for the criminal, and the dog led investigators from the place where the knife was found to a refugee shelter on Wupperstrasse. A special police unit surrounded the building and stormed it. The shelter is currently being searched and the people living there are being questioned.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that law enforcement officers detained a 15-year-old teenager after a man attacked festival guests with a knife in the city of Solingen. According to preliminary data, the teenager was not the direct perpetrator of the attack; he was accused of failing to report the planned crimes.
Investigators are still trying to determine the perpetrator's motives. Senior prosecutor Markus Kaspers said the attack could have been an act of terrorism.
On the evening of August 23, a man armed with a knife attacked people at the city festival "Diversity Festival", dedicated to the 650th anniversary of Solingen. As a result, at least three people died. The police specified that the victims were a 67-year-old and a 56-year-old man, as well as a 56-year-old woman. In addition, at least eight people were injured. According to the police, five of them were seriously injured.
The criminal fled the scene. German police are still searching for him. Deputy head of the German police union Michael Mertens emphasized that there is no specific information about the attacker yet, and descriptions of his personality are contradictory.
SUSPECT TURNED HIMSELF IN, LOCAL MINISTRY SAYS
The man suspected of the stabbing in Solingen turned himself in to the police, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia told the news agency DPA.
According to the German daily Bild, the man, still covered in blood, approached the officers shortly after 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) and said: "I'm the one you're looking for..."
He had reportedly been hiding in a backyard since the crime.
German news magazine Spiegel reported that the suspect is a 26-year-old Syrian, who came to Germany in 2022 and applied for asylum in Bielefeld.
Because he came from a country in civil war, he was allowed to stay in Germany.
SOLINGEN STABBING SUSPECT DETAINED, LOCAL MINISTER SAYS
Police have arrested a main suspect following the knife attack in Solingen, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul told German TV.
The minister spoke of a "real suspect" who police had been looking for all day, after a third person had been arrested in connection with the incident.
"They were very probably, still cautiously speaking, not the ones we really suspected," said Reul with regard to the two previous arrests.
"I myself am a bit relieved at the moment," the minister added. "I can only tell you that it is now more than a hunch. Not only did we have a lead on this person, but we've also found pieces of evidence."
The arrested suspect's clothes were dirty and covered in blood, the German news magazine Der Spiegel quoted security sources as saying.
Officials earlier said a 15-year-old boy was arrested early Saturday on suspicion he knew about the planned attack and failed to inform authorities, but he was not the attacker. Two female witnesses told police they overheard the boy and an unknown person before the attack speaking about intentions that corresponded to the bloodshed, officials said.
At around 11 pm local time on Saturday, over 24 hours after the attack in Solingen, 26-year-old “Issa al H.” surrendered to police.
According to German tabloid Bild, he came up to a patrol car and said: “I am the one you are looking for.” He reportedly hid in a backyard to evade detection while the day-long police manhunt was underway.
During the attack, which took place in the city centre of Solingen at a “festival of diversity” as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary, three people were stabbed to death and six others were wounded, including four with life-threatening wounds.
The attacker was said to have specifically targeted his victim’s necks, leading to speculation that it was terror-related.
Der Spiegel reports that Issa al H. was born in Syria, in the city of Deir al-Zor, before coming to Germany in 2022 as an asylum seeker. Last year, he was granted protection, allowing him to remain in the country as a result of the civil war in his homeland.
He was reportedly not known to security authorities as an Islamic extremist, however, he is said to be a Sunni Muslim.
It was claimed that, according to witness statements gathered by police, the attacker had shouted out the Jihadi war cry “Allahu Akbar” as he carried out the attack on the diversity festival.
German prosecutors on Sunday released the name of the 26-year-old Syrian man suspected of a multiple stabbing attack in the western city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight others.
Issa Al H., who was identified without his family name due to German privacy laws, was flown by helicopter to the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe for his first hearing.
Al H. was remanded in custody on suspicion of murder and membership of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) group, among other charges, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said.
Earlier Sunday, police said the suspect had turned himself in and admitted responsibility for the attack. German news magazine Spiegel reported that the suspect came to Germany in 2022 as a refugee and applied for asylum in the city of Bielefeld.
According to Germany's dpa news agency, the man's asylum claim was denied and he was to have been deported last year.
| There’s the motivation for his Sudden Jihad Syndrome: punish the dhimmis for daring to refuse to pay their jizya. |
The agency cited no sources for its information.
Al H. came from a home for refugees in Solingen that was searched on Saturday, according to Herbert Reul, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Solingen is situated.
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