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Wednesday 21 October 2020
Two weeks ago, a tourist from North Rhine-Westphalia was killed in Dresden after a knife attack. Now the police have arrested a suspect. He is a Syrian; according to a media report, it is said to be an Islamist threat. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office will now take over subsequent investigations.
Two weeks after a knife attack on two tourists in Dresden with one dead and one injured, investigators captured a suspect. The 20-year-old was arrested Tuesday night in Dresden, police and prosecutors in the Saxon capital said. Because, according to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, the crime of October 4 had a radical Islamist background, the Federal Attorney General took over the investigation. According to the authorities, the accused is Syrian.
The “Spiegel” had previously reported that the man was an Islamist threat. Consequently, the Saxon security authorities have known him for some time as a violent extremist. Among other things, he had been sentenced to more than two years in prison some time ago for instructions on how to commit a serious act of violence that was dangerous to the state.
According to their own statements, the investigators followed the man’s trail “in the course of evaluating the 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 kitchen knife used as a murder weapon, which police found bloodstained at the crime scene in the center of town, near places like the Frauenkirche and the Green Vault after the crime of 4 April. October. The suspect’s DNA was already stored in police databases.
In Germany since 2015
The authorities have not yet provided information on a possible motive for the accused. According to the results of the investigation, a manhunt began immediately, they said. The suspect was discovered Tuesday night in the center of town, not far from the old crime scene, and was immediately arrested. The defendant has been in Germany since 2015 and has tolerance. They specifically searched for it, the wives clicked in the city center. Based on the crime scene, the police had created a special commission with 29 officers under the name “Schloßstraße”.
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; the victim came from Krefeld, the survivor from Cologne. The perpetrator stabbed him at night around 9:30 pm on a Sunday. Passersby had found the victims and alerted rescuers. The police created a special commission to investigate the crime.
