In May in Germany, a mentally unstable 27-year-old man carried out a knife attack on a regional train in the south, killing one person and injuring three others. The Federal Ministry of the Interior stated that police shot the suspect, and police now say he has been killed.
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The Islamic State also said it was behind last week’s attack in Nice but investigators have struggled to establish a direct connection between the group and the Tunisian national who drove the truck that killed 84 people.
“Islamists and Salafists and different Islamist groups are trying to talk to young refugees at the asylum shelter”, Hans-Georg Maassen said on public ARD Television.
The perpetrator was initially thought to be Afghan but de Maiziere said on Wednesday (Thursday NZT) there were indications he was from Pakistan.
The attacker in the train stabbing incident arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor in June 2015 and had been staying with a foster family in the region of the attack for two week prior.
Four members of a family of tourists from Hong Kong and a passer-by were hurt in the assault late Monday in southern Germany that appeared likely to rekindle tensions over the country’s refugee influx.
The teenage Afghan teenager who carried out the axe-and-knife attack on a train in southern Germany left behind a letter and a video saying he sought to avenge the deaths of civilians in Muslim countries. In what appeared to be a farewell letter addressed to his father, who still resides in Afghanistan, Riyadh said the world’s Muslims “must defend themselves”. More than a dozen were treated for shock. They also found notes in Pashto, written in Arabic and Latin characters in the assailants’ room.
“It is perhaps a case which lies on the border between rampage and terror”, the German official said.
The 17-year-old attacker, Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, slashed two men and two women from Hong Kong before jumping off the train and wounding a woman who was walking her dog. “The attacker then was shot dead”.
“Witnesses have not described him as in any way radicalized or fanatic”, Herrmann said.
After passengers have alerted authorities about the attack, the train was stopped, leaving the suspect to flee from the scene on foot.
Herrmann said people close to the attacker told investigators he had seemed like a calm person, not overtly religious or an extremist.
It also said that experts have indicated that his accent is also clearly Pakistani.
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Last year Germany registered more than one million migrants, including more than 150,000 Afghans, although the number has slowed dramatically this year since new European Union measures were taken to stop the flow.
