The latest news about this mass stabbing in Germany. German police arrest suspect in stabbing rampage, media reports say https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...nt-festival-stabbing-that-kills-3-2024-08-24/ Three killed, eight injured in knife attack at festival Islamic State claims responsibility Police make second arrest Saturday evening Police earlier detained 15-year-old possibly linked to attack SOLINGEN, Germany, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A 26-year-old man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, Der Spiegel and other media reported late on Saturday, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people. Police declined to immediately comment. The Islamic State group earlier claimed responsibility for Friday's knife attack that also wounded eight people. Also earlier on Saturday, police had said they made a second arrest as part of a police operation at a home for refugees in Solingen. Police said they could not provide more details on the individual or its connection to the incident. Police had also detained a teenager who they said may be connected with the attack but said the perpetrator was still at large. Describing the man who carried out the attack as a "soldier of the Islamic State", the militant group said in a statement on its Telegram account: "He carried out the attack in revenge for Muslims in Palestine and everywhere." It did not immediately provide any evidence for its assertion and it was not clear how close any relationship between the attacker and Islamic State was. Hendrik Wuest, premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, described Friday evening's attack during a festival in the city as an act of terror. "This attack has struck at the heart of our country," Wuest told reporters. Interior minister Nancy Faeser said authorities were doing all they could to catch the assailant. Police spent the day conducting a manhunt. The teen detained was a 15-year-old who police were investigating for a possible link to the attacker. The attack took place in the Fronhof, a market square in the western German city where live bands were playing as part of a festival marking the its 650th anniversary. Markus Caspers, an official with the public prosecutor’s office in Duesseldorf, said authorities were treating the attack as a possible terrorist incident because there was no other known motive and the victims seemed unrelated. A police official, Thorsten Fleiss, said the assailant appeared to aim for his victims' throats. "The perpetrator must be quickly caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a post on X. Police cordoned off the square on Saturday and passers-by placed candles and flowers outside the barriers. "We are full of shock and grief," Solingen Mayor Tim-Oliver Kurzbach told journalists. A German musician who goes by the name Topic said he was playing on a nearby stage when the incident occurred. He was told about what had happened but was asked to keep playing "to avoid causing a mass panic attack", he posted on Instagram. He was eventually told to stop, and "since the attacker was still on the run, we hid in a nearby store while police helicopters circled above us," Topic wrote. Authorities cancelled the remainder of the weekend festival. Fatal stabbings and shootings are relatively rare in Germany. The government said earlier this month it wanted to toughen rules on knives that can be carried in public by reducing the maximum length allowed. In June, a 29-year-old policeman was fatally stabbed in Mannheim during an attack on a right-wing demonstration. A stabbing attack on a train in 2021 injured several people. North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister, Herbert Reul, visited the scene in Solingen early on Saturday. He told reporters it was a targeted attack on human life. Solingen, well known for its knife manufacturing industry, is a city of some 165,000 people. The episode comes ahead of three state elections next month in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg, in which the anti-immigrant far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has a chance of winning. Though the motive and identity of the assailant were not known, a top AfD candidate for one of the state elections, Bjoern Hoecke, seized on Friday's attack, posting on X: "Do you really want to get used to this? Free yourselves and end this insanity of forced multiculturalism".
In the article... Fatal stabbings and shootings are relatively rare in Germany. The government said earlier this month it wanted to toughen rules on knives that can be carried in public by reducing the maximum length allowed. That's the way it's supposed to be done. If there is a public outcry about violent crime...laws should be passed to minimize those types of violent crimes with knives. Now watch which political parties in Germany will get in the way of those new laws about knives. The question is, how does anybody stop violent crime with knives? Gate checks to events (outdoor and indoor) or more armed security roaming the events to go along with shortening the length of knives allowed to be carried in public??? Whatever they use, it's better than the United States that will just argue they should not do anything because it's the knife...not the knife owner. Regardless, these are rare events in Europe. Any American would welcome the low violent crime rates of a European country. By the way, the most dangerous countries in Europe (ranking) so far here in 2024: Russia Ukraine Belarus France Serbia Cyprus Bosnia Greece Just as interesting, before the Pandemic in 2019: Sweden Ukraine France Moldova Italy Ireland Bosnia U.K. Russia seems to have jumped on the 2024 list because of its War with Ukraine whereas Ukraine seems to have an existing problem with violent crime for a long time considering it's been on the top 3 list since 2019. Commonality: non-Western immigrants and their descendants are vastly overrepresented in violent crime that are occurring in Europe. Who are non-Western immigrants??? Refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East, East Africa, and other regions of the world. Yet, Europe still remains far below the United States in violent crime rates whereas most of the violent crime in the United States are not by refugees and asylum seekers. wrbtrader
They are “ fake asylum seekers” that sneak into our country. They most certainly do cause crime and further, they arent supposed to be here anyway.
The comparison is the United States versus Europe...why LOW violent crime rate in Europe versus the HIGH violent crime rate in the United States ??? It's a serious question that needs to be answered considering you selected two violent crimes in Europe. Nobody here has stated they do not commit crimes regardless if they're fake asylum seekers or real asylum seekers. Anyway, you failed to answer my other questions to you in this thread and I'm not expecting you to answer the above question based on your posting habits here at ET under a new username that has the same pattern as your other usernames. Take care...I will not be posting in this thread again after the below video of one of my favorite Finland bands. wrbtrader
The rate of violent crime is now much higher in Europe compared to what Europe’s violent crime rate was PRIOR to all the middle eastern and african immigrants pouring in. They are destroying Europe. Thats a fact.
Follow-up on this mass stabbing in Solingen, Germany. The perp is a 26 year old Syrian refugee who is a member of ISIS. "His asylum claim had been denied and that he was supposed to have been deported last year." German prosecutors name man suspected of carrying out Solingen stabbings https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/google-chrome-zero-day-update-33534495