The attack with a knife on a German regional train, which left two dead and several injured, had no “terrorist” motive, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation said Thursday.
“There are no indications of a terrorist context,” said the spokesman for the Itzehoe (north) prosecutor’s office, Peter Müller-Rakow. “The other elements of the context and the course of events are the subject of an investigation,” he added.
The suspect is stateless
The 33-year-old alleged attacker, Ibrahim A., a stateless man of Palestinian origin who was arrested immediately after the events on Wednesday, will be brought before a judge on Thursday afternoon, at the request of the prosecution, who will decide what to do next. give.
He is suspected of stabbing several people on a regional express train from Kiel to Hamburg in northern Germany.
During a press conference in Kiel, the Minister of the Interior of the regional state of Schleswig-Holstein (north), Sabine Sütterlin-Waack, corrected certain details about the victims.
The two people who died are a 17-year-old girl, not 16, as the police had previously announced, and a 19-year-old boy. “They knew each other,” said Sabine Sütterlin.
The alleged attacker is already known for fouls
A total of five people were injured, not seven as investigators previously announced. Two of them are between life and death and three are seriously injured.
The alleged perpetrator was subdued by witnesses before being arrested at the Brokstedt station.
Ibrahim A. came to Germany in 2014, Sabine Sütterlin-Waack said. At this stage, no one can say where he was before this date. Since 2015, he has repeatedly been guilty of crimes, including violence against others.
After becoming homeless, he was released from prison in mid-January after serving time for assault and battery.
Source: BFM TV
