One of the victims, a 56-year-old man latter succumbed to his wounds in the hospital. As for the rest of them, the prosecutor in the case said that two of them are badly injured and the other is in critical condition.
The “assailant made remarks at the scene of the crime that indicate a political motive – apparently an Islamist one,” Ken Heidenreich, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, told AFP. “We are still determining what the exact remarks were.”
The name and nationality of the attacker was then revealed to the public by German media as being 27-year-old Paul H. from the city of Hesse in central Germany. The attacker reportedly does not have a migrant background.
Heidenreich told AP that the prosecutor’s office was investigating witness reports that claimed the suspect had yelled “Allahu Akbar.”
Later, senior police official Guenther Gietl told media that a woman who witnessed the incident heard the attacker shout “infidel, you must die” at the time of the stabbing.
The authorities later said there were no Islamist motives in the attack and the man was probably a drug addict and suffered from mental health issues.
The nationality of the attacker was confirmed by the interior minister of the state of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann.
“When it comes to revealing more about their background, or whether mental illness or drug addiction played a role, these are things that require further clarification. I think we will make further announcements on this later in the day.”
Denial is a stinky cologne. Is there a difference between Islamic extremism and being mentally unfit?
Anybody who would kill themselves or others for a harem of “virgins” on the other side definitely has a couple of screws loose.
This isn’t the first time attacks have been initiated with “alleged” Islamic motivations. It would seem that the German police force is under the impression that these incidents will stop happening if they keep sweeping them under the rug.
We’ll see how that works out.
Source: rt.com
