There are "serious indications" that a migrant man who went on a knife rampage in Germany back in November was inspired by radical Islam, the local prosecutor’s office has reportedly said.
That’d be known wolf Abdullah A H H, 27, who arrived in Germany in the 2015 wave of migration. He was released from juvenile prison only five days before the attack. Despite being categorized as high risk, with a history as an ISIS recruiter, the authorities declined to monitor him. His asylum request had been rejected, but German policy was not to deport Syrians until their home country was peaceful. When he was finally found two weeks after the November 6, 2021 attack, matched to the DNA on the knife he used, the police claimed his motivation as paranoid schizophrenia.
This is despite public officials initially ruling out the possibility of the attack being a terror event, claiming that there was no evidence for such a claim.According to a report by Die Welt, however, the terror motive appears to be squarely back on the table, with the migrant man now believed to hold hardline Islamic views by prosecutors, including the desire to live in a state ruled in accordance with Sharia law.
Officials seem to have come to this view via the testimony of those who knew the man, as well as reports that he had in his possession radical Islamic propaganda supposedly produced by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
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calling for attacks to be perpetrated.
Prosecutors also believe the 27-year old rejects the very notion of a Western democratic nation, with Die Welt saying that the man seemingly "disregards all Germans".
The comments made by German officials in regards to the rampaging Syrian migrant stands in complete contrast to initial claims made by police shortly after the attack.
According to authorities at the time, there was no evidence of any sort of terror motive for the incident, despite Die Welt now reporting that ISIS propaganda was apparently found on the knifeman’s very person.
Instead, it was reported that the man had reportedly shown signs of suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and that he believed people were following him.
"There are no indications of an Islamist background," claimed one official at the time regarding the incident.
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this initial rejection that the attack was terror-related was rolled back later by officials, who admitted that a terrorist motive was being looked at as a possible motivation for the incident.
"Indications pointing in this direction include the contents of the defendant’s Facebook account and propaganda videos of the terrorist organization Islamic State found on him," prosecutors said according to a report drawn up by AFP.
The man has since been sent to jail after an expert said that he could be held criminally liable for his actions, which include wound four people, two near-fatally.