Weeks after an Afghan migrant stabbed a German police officer to death at an anti-Islam rally in the city of Mannheim, another Afghan refugee went on a deadly stabbing spree at a soccer event near the eastern German city of Magdeburg.
The migrant attacker killed at least one man and wounded several others, German media reported. “A man attacked several people in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, including at a private party to mark the opening of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament,” Germany’s state-owned DW TV reported Saturday.
The broadcaster identified the attacker was a “27-year-old Afghan national.” German authorities remain clueless about the motives behind the attack. “Police said the motive for the attacks was unclear,” the ABC News reported.
The French TV channel Euronews reports.
German police shot to death an Afghan man after he fatally attacked a compatriot and later wounded three people watching the televised opening game of the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in eastern Germany, police said Saturday.The 27-year-old Afghan citizen first attacked a 23-year-old compatriot with a “knife-like object” in Wolmirstedt, a small town about 130 kilometres west of Berlin, on Friday evening, police said. The victim later died of his wounds.The man later attacked a group of people watching the soccer game between Germany and Scotland in the yard of private house, injuring three German men, two of them seriously, police said.Police said the assailant, still armed with the same object, also attacked officers called to the scene. Two of the officers shot and wounded the man, who died soon after in a hospital.Police said the motive for the attacks was unclear. The Interior Ministry in Saxony-Anhalt state, which includes Wolmirstedt, said police had increased their presence across the state. The soccer tournament is taking place in cities across Germany and runs through July 14.
The 25-year-old man who murdered the policeman in Mannheim was also an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan. The attack in Mannheim was aimed at Michael Stürzenberger, a German writer and activist known for his critical views on Islam and jihad terrorism. Stürzenberger survived the attack but sustained serious stab wounds.
Amid rising migrant crime, the German government is proposing the establishment of ‘knife-free zones’ in cities across the country. “We should think about banning knives on public transport, on buses and trains,” Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser declared. While waging jihad on knives, Faeser is one of biggest supporters of open borders policy in the current German government.
In April, German Interior Ministry release “data showing a 5.5% rise in overall crime last year and a 13.5% increase in the number of suspects with foreign backgrounds,” Reuters reported. Migrant crime has been on the rise since German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the country’s borders to illegal migrants in the autumn of 2015.
With the country failing to secure borders, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party registered its biggest election gains in last week’s European election, winning 16 percent of the votes. The AfD secured the second place, ahead of German chancellor Olaf Schulz’s left-wing Social Democratic, which got nearly 14 percent.
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