Berlin – Knife attacks, shootings, an execution in public. And again and again, people are dead and seriously injured. Even innocent people become victims of random attacks: at the festival, on the bus, on the street.
The fear of violence that has seemingly become commonplace is shaking the country. Read here what has happened in the last three weeks alone.
Munich: Knife-wielding woman shot dead in supermarket
Monday, August 19, Munich. A woman (31) runs with a knife in a supermarket on Munich’s Implerstrasse. When the police arrive, she threatens the officers. In self-defense, they shoot the woman several times, and she eventually dies of her injuries. Before the crime, the mentally unstable German woman is said to have had an argument with her parents.
Frankfurt: Execution at the main station
On the cross platform, the killer approaches from behind and shoots his victim in the head
Tuesday, August 20, Frankfurt/Main. At around 9 p.m., Kemal Ö. (54), a kebab shop owner from the Black Forest, approaches 27-year-old Hakim E. from behind on platform 9 of the main station. shoots him several times in the head at close range. Only minutes later, the killer allows himself to be arrested. The reason for the execution is said to be a family feud among Kurds. Ö. had committed a blood feud because E. had apparently killed a close relative in Turkey and had gone into hiding in Germany.
Solingen: Three dead after terror attack at city festival
Two days after the Solingen murders, the perpetrator is brought to the Federal Prosecutor General in Karlsruhe
Friday, August 23, Solingen (NRW). During the city festival (“Festival of Diversity”) At 9.40 p.m., 26-year-old Syrian Issa al Hasan randomly attacked people celebrating in front of the stageTwo men aged 67 and 56 and a 56-year-old woman die, eight people are injured, four of them seriously. One day later, the attacker, who should have been deported from Germany long ago, is arrested. The Terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS)al Hasan was their “soldier”. This cannot be verified.
Moers: Police shoot knife attacker
Forensic investigation in Moers. Here the knife attacker attacked the officers and was shot
Tuesday, August 27, Moers (NRW). The apparently mentally ill German Nils M. (26) attacked police officers at around 3 p.m. with two blades about 20 centimeters long. The officers shoot, two bullets hit the attacker. He dies.
Recklinghausen: Police officer killed after knife attack
After a knife attack, police shot dead a German (33) in Recklinghausen
Wednesday, August 28, Recklinghausen. At around 6 p.m., a 33-year-old German man attacked his father with a knife during an argument, injuring his hand. When the police arrived, he also attacked the officers. They shoot him at least five timesa bullet hits him in the neck. He dies instantly.
Berlin: Ex-husband stabs mother of four
Neighbours laid flowers and candles in front of the door of the dead woman
Wednesday, August 28, Berlin. At around 8:30 p.m., a man of Lebanese descent (50) ambushed his ex-wife (36) in the Zehlendorf district and stabbed her. The mother of four children died on the way to the hospital. She had separated from him shortly before the crime because he repeatedly mistreated her. After the murder, the man is said to have only said: “You deserve this.”
Hamburg: 30 men attack each other with knives
Thursday, August 29, Hamburg. At 21.25 the Jungfernstieg about 30 young men attacked each other with knivesTwo Russians (18, 22) are seriously injured by stab wounds in the back. Witnesses later describe the perpetrators as “North African/Arab”.
Im Video 30 people attack each other with knives
Berlin: Stalker kills his ex-girlfriend
Friday, August 30, Berlin. At around 10.30 p.m., a stalker (45) stabbed a young woman (28) in the hallway of a residential building in the Friedrichsfelde district. The mother of two children had separated from the man after he repeatedly became violent. Only the day before the murder she had asked the authorities for protectionwanted to impose a restraining order on her ex.
Ravensburg: Somali stabbed to death in front of supermarket
A police officer overpowers the knife killer from Ravensburg lying on the ground
Friday, August 30, Ravensburg (Baden-Württemberg). After a bloody fight in a refugee shelter The day before, a 31-year-old man from Gambia took revenge on his opponent from Somalia (25) and stabbed him in front of a supermarket. The man died in hospital.
Siegen: six injured in knife attack on bus
In this bus, a woman attacked fellow passengers with a knife
Friday, August 30th, Siegen (NRW). At around 7.40 p.m., a German woman named Lisa Maria C. (32), who was apparently under the influence of medication, randomly attacked several of the approximately 40 passengers on a public bus with a knife, injuring six of them, three of them critically. Three young Muslim mothers can stop the womanthe police arrest the attacker. The bus was on its way to the town festival.
Berlin: Man shoots police officer and dies
Special units moved to a house in Nikolassee in Berlin
Saturday, August 31st, Berlin. On a caravan site in the Nikolassee district At around 10.20 a.m. a man (46) threatened another man (49) with a firearm, then barricaded himself in an apartment building. When the SEK approached, he immediately opened fire. The police fired back and fatally shot him.
Jüchen: Knife murder on the motorway
The victim’s vehicle on a tow truck
Monday, September 2nd, Jüchen (NRW). At around 3 a.m., two drivers got into an argument after pushing and shoving at the entrance to the A540. They pulled over to the right and got out. Then someone pulls out a kniferams it into the chest of his opponent Yusuf C. (20). The young man dies, the killer flees, but is caught shortly afterwards. It is Ibrahim E. (25), who was arrested for a knife attack has already been in prison once.
Bonn: Police shoot knifeman in front of Burger King
The man was shot in front of this fast food restaurant
Wednesday, September 4, Bonn (NRW). At around 10:35 a.m., a man attacked several people, injuring a woman (43) and a man (32). The police are able to arrest him in front of a Burger King restaurant. A scuffle ensues and the officers shoot. The knife attacker, who is said to be from the homeless community, later succumbs to his injuries in hospital.
Munich: Islamist plans attack on Jewish institutions
Emrah I. (18) shoots at police officers with a repeating rifle
Thursday, September 5, Munich. Near the Nazi Documentation Center and the Israeli consulate, the 18-year-old Islamist Emrah I. fired at police officers with a repeating rifle in the morning. They fired back, kill the Bosnian-born AustrianThe young man had become radicalized in Salzburg and was apparently planning attacks on Jewish institutions on the anniversary of the 1972 Olympic bombing. He had, among other things, IS propaganda videos on his cell phone.
Linz am Rhein: Terrorist attacks police station with machete
The police station in Linz am Rhein after the terror attack
Friday, September 6, Linz am Rhein (Rhineland-Palatinate). At 2:40 a.m., an Albanian (29) storms the police station of the small town with a machete, shouts “Allahu Akba” and that he has come to kill police officersThe officers were able to overpower him with a taser. A flag of the terrorist organization ‘Islamic State’ was later discovered drawn on the wall of the man’s apartment.
Krefeld: mother of two killed
Nadia N. (31) was killed, the father of her children arrested
Friday, September 6, Krefeld (NRW). At around 3 a.m. in a block of flats in the city centre, the Afghan mother Nadia N. (31) was apparently attacked with a knife and injured so badly that she died shortly afterwards in hospitalThe police arrest her Afghan partner Akhtar M. (29). The couple has two small children (1, 4).