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KNIFE ATTACK. Forensic police inspect on early Saturday, August 24, 2024, the area where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on late Friday in Solingen, western Germany, according to German media, as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. AFPSOLINGEN, Germany – German police said Sunday a Syrian man has given himself up and confessed to killing three people and wounding eight others in a knife rampage at a street festival.
Police said in a statement that the suspect was a 26-year-old Syrian who had “given himself up to authorities in charge of the investigation and declared himself responsible for the attack”. According to the Bild and Spiegel newspapers, the suspect arrived in Germany in December 2022 and had a protected immigration status often given to those fleeing war-torn Syria.Police have also arrested a 15-year-old suspected of failing to report a criminal act.
Germany has been on high alert for extremist attacks since the Gaza war erupted on October 7 with the Hamas attacks on Israel.A truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in 2016 killed 12 people. In May, a police officer was killed and five people were wounded in a knife attack at a far-right rally in Mannheim, with an Islamist motive suspected.
The claim could not be immediately verified, though German officials had said “a terrorist motive cannot be excluded”. Witness Lars Breitzke told the Solinger Tageblatt newspaper he was near the attack, close to the main stage, and “understood from the expression on the singer’s face that something was wrong”.
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