Berlin. A 26-year-old man turns himself in to police covered in blood. What he then told the officers and where the man is supposed to have come from. An overview.
More than 24 hours later Knife attack in Solingen The search for the perpetrator of the crime is over: a 26-year-old man turned himself in to the police on Saturday night and was arrested. The man gave a statement to the Attorney General’s Office and the police According to Düsseldorf, “he is responsible for the attack”. North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) confirmed to ARD: “The person we have been looking for all day has only recently been in custody.”
The man was suspected of having one on Friday night at a folk festival in Solingen Do Three people were killed and eight others were injured, some seriously. The attacker managed to escape after the crime. Police arrested two other men as part of the investigation, one of them in a refugee accommodation, before the 26-year-old turned himself in later that night.
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Blood stained The man reportedly approached police shortly after 11 p.m. and said, “I’m the one you’re looking for,” the Bild newspaper reported. He had apparently been hiding in a backyard since the crime. Reul initially declined to give any details, but was certain that the man was indeed the person he was looking for: “It’s more than just a hunch,” Reul said. “Not only did we receive a tip about this person, but we also found evidence that the man is ‘highly’ suspicious.”
According to a report by “Spiegel”, the suspect in the crime is a 26-year-old man. Syrians Issa al H., who came to Germany at the end of December 2022. H. therefore applied for asylum in Bielefeld and was granted subsidiary protection as a refugee from a country at civil war. With this protection status, refugees can initially stay in Germany because they are presumed to be at risk of serious harm in their country of origin.
Knife attack in Solingen: Terrorist militia publishes letters of responsibility
Issa al H. was not previously known to security authorities as an Islamic extremist, SPIEGEL reported. The Islamic terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS) has taken responsibility for the crime. The attacker has this AND and the attack, which targeted a “group of Christians,” was carried out as a form of “revenge for Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere,” according to a statement released through IS spokesman Amak.
ONE Letter of confession The IS confession was also received by the Düsseldorf police. Its authenticity is still being verified. It is not yet clear whether the arrested man actually had links to IS. In the past, the terrorist militia has also claimed responsibility for crimes in which there was apparently no reliable evidence of a link to the perpetrator. It is not yet certain whether the militia’s confession is genuine and still needs to be verified, Reul said. “But there is something to be said about it.”
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Solingen: Suspected perpetrator lived in refugee accommodation
However, investigators were aware of a possible IS even before the IS confession. terrorist background is actually over. “Based on the overall circumstances, we assume that the initial suspicion of a terrorist-motivated act cannot be ruled out,” Düsseldorf Senior Public Prosecutor Markus Caspers, head of the Central Terrorism Prosecution Office in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said on Saturday. Based on the overall circumstances, “no other motive” is currently apparent.
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According to North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Reul, the suspect also lived in the refugee accommodation where another man had previously been detained in the course of the investigation. He was now “a bit relieved”, Reul said on Saturday evening.