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Two men from North Rhine-Westphalia were attacked with a knife in the old town of Dresden. One of them later died in hospital. Now the police have captured a convicted Syrian.
Police detained a 20-year-old suspect in the murder of a tourist on Wednesday.
A Syrian was arrested in connection with the fatal attack on two tourists from North Rhine-Westphalia in central Dresden in early October. The 20-year-old was captured in the city center on Tuesday night. Several German media unanimously report that this is an Islamist who emigrated to Germany from Syria in 2015. In December, he was sentenced to three years and a month in youth prison on two counts of assault and assault on law enforcement officers.
The sentence included a trial in the Dresden Higher Regional Court that convicted the Syrian of recruiting members for a foreign terrorist group. In addition to that, he had prepared a “serious act of violence that was dangerous for the state.” He was also charged with assault and threats. The man is not a recognized refugee, but he only had a state of tolerance. Tolerated migrants should leave the country, but are not deported. Due to the tense situation in Syria, Germany is not deporting the country from the civil war.
In the knife attack in Dresden on October 4, two men, aged 53 and 55, were seriously injured. The 55-year-old from Krefeld later died in hospital, the 53-year-old from Cologne survived the attack and is on the mend. A knife had been found at the scene. The police had created a special commission with 29 officers.
Released from prison at the end of September
The Dresden District Court issued an arrest warrant for the Syrian on Wednesday. He is in preventive prison and is silent. The Dresden prosecution charges him with murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily injury. He was only released after his previous conviction in late September and was under conduct supervision. Because the knife attack could be an Islamist act, the Dresden Public Prosecutor took over the investigation. According to media reports, the authorities had classified the suspect as an Islamist threat.
The Islamist milieu in Germany is growing. In 2019, the protection of the Constitution had 28,000 Islamists, about 5 percent more than the previous year. The Federal Criminal Police Office has listed 660 Islamist threats, of which only half are currently in Germany and around 100 are in prison. Additionally, there are around 500 potential supporters of the threats.
After the attack on a Berlin Christmas market in 2016, Germany was again the target of an Islamist attack in the summer of this year. An Iraqi man rammed his car into other road users on the Berlin city highway, seriously injuring three of them. After the fact, he had deployed a prayer mat on the road and threatened him with an explosive device.
