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After a knife attack on two tourists in Dresden with one dead and another injured, investigators have now captured a suspect. The federal prosecutor takes over the case.
After an attack in Dresden with a dead person, the police have captured a suspect. A 20-year-old was arrested Tuesday night in Dresden, police and the prosecutor said. The man is said to be an Islamist threat from Syria. The authorities assume an act of Islamist motivation. Therefore, the Attorney General took over the investigation.
The “Spiegel” had previously reported. Consequently, the man has been known as an Islamist in Germany for years. Apparently, he had already been in prison for two years for receiving instructions about an act of serious violence that endangered the state, the magazine reports.
The reason is not yet clear
The defendant will appear before a judge on Wednesday. According to their own statements, investigators found the man in the course of evaluating the attack trail. The results justified the suspicion.
According to a report in the newspaper “Bild”, they are said to be DNA traces. Thus, they were in the knife used as a murder weapon, which was found by police at the crime scene in the city center, near landmarks such as the Frauenkirche and the Green Vault after the October 4 crime. . The suspect’s DNA was already stored in police databases.
Attack in the city center
Due to the results of the investigation, a manhunt began immediately, authorities said. The suspect was discovered Tuesday night in the center of town, not far from the old crime scene, and was immediately arrested. “My condolences to the bereaved, who, in addition to the loss, had to learn today that the killings were probably politically motivated,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said of the new findings. “The act shows us again the dangers of Islamist violence.”
A 55-year-old man was so seriously injured in the attack on two tourists that he died in hospital. A 53-year-old man survived with serious injuries. The two men came from North Rhine-Westphalia and visited Dresden together. They found passersby and alerted rescuers. The police created a special commission to investigate the crime.
