Police spokeswoman Michaela Grob said a man was arrested and authorities are working to identify him. He said it wasn’t yet clear where the three wounded victims were assaulted.
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Munich’s prosecutor’s office meanwhile imposed a news blackout regarding the case, wrote the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
The man is a trained carpenter but has been unemployed for two years, according to investigators, who said he had recently undergone psychiatric treatment and was known to have taken an unspecified drug two days before the attack.
Koehler said it was “difficult to get coherent, plausible and comprehensible information” during questioning of the suspect.
But with about 260 of the more than 800 home-grown radicals who have joined jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq having since returned to Germany, ministers have warned an attack is possible and security services are on alert. Wednesday’s statement said investigators found no evidence pointing to a religious motivation for the crime. “And if he did, it must have been relatively recent”. He gave no details, saying it was a matter for the investigation.
The suspect was from Giessen, in the German state of Hesse, some 370 kilometers (230 miles) northwest of Grafing.
Footage from the scene showed bloodied footprints leading out of a train carriage at the station, and small puddles of blood on the platform.
In other words, if a man shouts “Allahu Akbar!” and proceeds to stab people he does not have an Islamist motive.
The name of the assailant has not been release yet.
The four people injured were left with life-threatening injuries, Bavarian radio reports.
Police say one person has died in a hospital after the stabbing at a train station outside Munich.
“The idea that people enter [the station] on a handsome morning. and then become victims of a maniac is awful”, said Grafing Mayor Angelika Obermayr.
“Something like this is completely new and has shaken people deeply – it is something you only see on television”.
Germany has also been a transit country for militants who carried out attacks in Belgium this year and Paris last year.
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The country has so far been spared a major attack by ISIS or al Qaeda on its own soil, but it has good reason to be jumpy.
