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Saturday, October 24, 2020
The young Islamist, who is said to have killed a tourist with a knife in Dresden, only stayed in Germany against his will. The Syrian threat is said to have tried to reach Turkey with the help of the German authorities. But Ankara denied the man entry.
The suspected Dresden knife attacker is said to have tried in vain to travel with a sister to Turkey at the end of 2017. According to internal documents, the German authorities wanted to help the young man from Syria, who had recently been listed as an Islamist threat and was in detention. at that time, with his departure. Police refer to people as threats if they trust that they will commit serious politically motivated crimes, such as a terrorist attack.
According to information from the German Press Agency, the project failed because the Turkish embassy refused to issue him a visa due to lack of evidence. Accordingly, it was planned to provide the Turkish authorities with information about the IS supporter, but only after he left Germany.
At that time, the young Islamist and his plans to leave the country were discussed several times in the so-called AG State of the joint federal and state counterterrorism center. The security authorities attacked him because he had advertised the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia and was seeking instructions on how to build explosive belts. In November 2018, the Dresden Higher Regional Court sentenced him to a sentence of minors of two years and nine months for, among other things, asking members or supporters of a terrorist organization abroad to obtain instructions to commit a serious act. of violence, bodily injury and threats.
The young man, whose year of birth is recorded in the archives as 1998 or 2000, had applied for asylum in Chemnitz in February 2016. In September 2017, after his arrest, he said, according to the archives, that he wanted to leave Germany again. However, in April 2018, he reportedly stated that he did not want to return to Syria as he would be drafted into the army there.
On October 4, two men were victims of a knife attack in Dresden. A 55-year-old man from Krefeld died, another Cologne man survived seriously injured. The young Syrian is under suspicion. Investigators suspect an Islamist motive. The Attorney General has taken over the investigation.
