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2025-01-22 Europe
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Two-Year-Old Child Among Dead in Mass Stabbing at German Park, ‘Afghan' Knifeman Arrested
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[Breitbart] At least two people have been killed, including a child, in a mass stabbing at a historic but now crime-plagued park in a Bavarian town.
UPDATE 1600 — Suspect known to police, ’mentally ill’
The 28-year-old Afghan suspect was already known to police and "mentally disturbed", local German language newspaper Main-Echo carries in its latest updates on the Aschaffenburg attack. They state security service sources who say the man was a registered refugee and that a local refugee accommodation had been searched by police after the attack, but emphasise no officially confirmation of these assertions has yet been forthcoming.
Apparently, police are still not discussing any motives.
Understandably, the stress of responding to a crime scene with dead and gravely injured children has been so traumatic first responders are receiving psychological counselling.
The newspaper states they spoke to a local politician in Aschaffenburg who told them the killings reminds him of the Wurzburg attack. To remind readers, in Wurzburg in 2021 a Somali asylum seeker living in the city went on a knife rampage, stabbing ten people — all women — three of whom died. One of the deceased was an 82-year-old woman who threw herself between the knifeman and a child he was attacking, while another was a 49-year-old woman while defending another child the Somali was trying to stab.
The killings sparked some heated debate which were angrily dismissed by the then-mayor of Wurzburg Christian Schuchardt, a party colleague of Angela Merkel, who criticised the public for stereotyping migrants by linking the knifeman’s refugee status to the stabbings. As reported then, he claimed: "the crimes of individuals can never be traced back to population groups, religions or nationalities. We Germans were not condemned in general after the Second World War either. Nor does this now apply to Somalis or refugees in general. This pigeonholing must come to an end".
"How would you feel as a foreigner in our city today?", the mayor asked rhetorically in 2021.
UPDATE 1400 — Slain child two years old, suspect an Afghan national
The latest on the Aschaffenburg park attack is that the two people who were killed were a two-year-old boy suffering "multiple stab wounds" and a 41-year-old man. The arrested suspect is a 28-year-old Afghan male, so says local police in a statement.
The number of "seriously injured" people has been revised up from two to four, including another child and three adults, Germany’s Die Welt relates.
Distressingly, the newspaper states the attack may have been on a group of day-care children who had been taken out to the park for a walk by their teachers. It reports the attacker followed the group, and when they tried to leave the area he attacked, allegedly "specifically targeting the children".
The deceased adult male is reported to have put himself between the knifeman and the children.
It is further asserted that "The police are said to have ruled out a terrorist background."
A 41-year-old man and a two-year-old boy died in the attack. Two others were seriously injured.
A 28-year-old suspect, who police say is from Afghanistan, has been taken into custody after the killing. Another person who witnessed the attack is also being held for questioning, but was not suspected of wrongdoing.
GERMAN CHANCELLOR MEETS SECURITY CHIEFS
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the attack was "an unbelievable act of terror" and offered his sympathies to the victims' families and two more people injured.
"I am sick of seeing such acts of violence occurring in our country every few weeks, by perpetrators who have actually come here to find protection here," he said.
| A complete reverse from what I recall of his previous attitude — he is to be congratulated. |
Scholz met with the heads of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Federal Criminal Police Office, and the Federal Police at the Chancellery late in the evening. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser also participated in the meeting.
"The authorities must work as hard as possible to find out why the attacker was still in Germany," Scholz said ahead of the meeting.
"Things cannot go on like this," the Christian Democratic Union's Friedrich Merz wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after the attack. "We must and will restore law and order!"
The Alternative for Germany party's Alice Weidel also posted a message on X urging "remigration now!" -- using a term that the far right has adopted to call for the mass deportation of migrants.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ATTACK?
The stabbing occurred shortly before noon at the Schöntal park near the city center. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the suspect deliberately attacked a kindergarten group in the park with a kitchen knife.
A 41-year old German man, a passerby, and a two-year old boy of Moroccan descent were both killed, Herrmann added.
Bavarian Health Minister Judith Gerlach confirmed that three other people were wounded, including a 61-year-old man, a child and a teacher.
The perpetrator had attempted to run away from the crime scene across nearby railroad tracks, with German rail company Deutsche Bahn temporarily halting trains in the area.
Herrmann said the suspect had entered Germany in 2022. His asylum claim was unsuccessful and he was supposed to have left the country late last year.
"The authorities must explain as quickly as possible why the attacker was even still in Germany," Scholz said.
The suspect had a history of violent behavior and was undergoing psychiatric treatment by the time his asylum case was denied.
The suspect's accommodation at an asylum center was searched. Investigators found psychiatric medication but no "evidence of a radical Islamist attitude."
According to Spiegel, the Afghan's name is Enamullah O., and said he was born in 1997 and lives in an asylum accommodation in the region.
Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said: 'On December 4, the suspect himself announced his voluntary departure.
'As a result, on December 11, the BAMF finally closed the asylum procedure and asked the person concerned to leave the country.'
The suspect had allegedly been following a day care group of five young children before launching the attack, according to Main-Echo.
An eyewitness told the Main-Echo newspaper that the arrested man was taken away 'in a headlock.'
Cops confirmed that two people had died while two others were seriously injured in the attack, and are now being treated in hospital.
According to Bild, one of the seriously injured is also a child.
'Two people were fatally injured,' police said, while 'two seriously injured people are receiving treatment in hospital.
In November, police classified parts of the city centre park as a 'dangerous place' due to an increase in 'drug-related crimes', which reportedly included robbery and assault.
There were reported to be regular patrols of the area, which is potentially why the suspect was apprehended so quickly. 
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