‘RANDOM’ STABBING SPREE AT FESTIVAL IN GERMANY LEAVES 3 DEAD, OTHERS INJURED: REPORT
The attack occurred shortly before noon in a park in Aschaffenburg, a city of about 72,000 inhabitants. Bavaria’s most sensible security official, Joachim Herrmann, claimed that the attacker attacked the boy, who was part of a daycare organization, with a kitchen knife.
He said that the two-year-old boy, of Moroccan origin, was murdered, as well as a 41-year-old German who was passing by and who seemed to have intervened to protect the other children. Bavarian authorities said two adults and a two-year-old Syrian girl were injured and taken to hospital for treatment, and that neither of their lives were in danger.
Other bystanders chased the suspect and arrested him 12 minutes after the attack, Herrmann said.
Rescue vehicles are seen near a crime scene in Aschaffenburg, Germany, Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, where two people were killed in a knife attack. (Ralf Hettler/dpa via AP)
He added that the suspect, a 28-year-old Afghan national, had come to the government’s attention at least three times due to acts of violence. On each occasion, he was sent for psychiatric treatment and later discharged.
The suspect is believed to have arrived in Germany in November 2022 and applied for asylum in early 2023, Herrmann said. On Dec. 4, he told authorities that he would leave the country voluntarily and would seek papers from the Afghan consulate. A week later, German authorities formally closed asylum proceedings and told him to leave.
Police will work in the coming days to identify his motive, Herrmann said, adding that suspicions point to his psychiatric illness. An initial search of his room in a refugee home revealed no evidence of his radical Islamic views and only revealed medications tailored to his psychiatric treatment, he said.
The attack comes politically a month before the German national elections.
Scholz issued a strong message condemning what he called “an incomprehensible act of terror”.
“I’m tired of seeing these kinds of acts of violence happening here every few weeks, by perpetrators who have come to us to find cover here,” he said. “Erroneous tolerance is not relevant here. The government will have to explain “In full tension, why the attacker was still in Germany. “
That must lead to “immediate consequences — it is not enough to talk,” Scholz added. He didn’t elaborate.
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Following a knife attack on an Afghan migrant in Mannheim in May that left one police officer dead and four other people injured, Scholz vowed that Germany would begin deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria again. He vowed to step up deportations of rejected asylum seekers following a knife attack in Solingen in August in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three other people.
At the end of August, Germany deported Afghan citizens to their country for the first time since the Taliban regained strength in 2021.
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