A 30-year-old ‘lone wolf’ storms a church in Rottenburg (photo), in the district of Tübingen, with a knife, threatens people attending the service and damages church property. No one is injured this time. The man is declared to be “known to the police”. When the police arrive, he throws the knife at their feet, resists arrest and insults the officers before being routinely taken to a specialist clinic.
German magazine Focus, among others, reports on this ‘one-man’ incident in a highly cryptic manner. As usual, everything remains shrouded in mystery: no origin, no motives, no life story, no social context, instead the familiar pattern of this journalistic “one-man action” narrative, in which an individual appears out of nowhere, wields a knife, creates fear and then disappears without a trace into the obligatory vagueness of the “known to the police” blur.
Oh yes: Rottenburg is extremely proud to have joined the radical left-wing ‘safe harbour’ alliance, which critics refer to as a migrant trafficking network. Rottenburg is thus a place where moralising prevails, while real problems and threats, such as knife attacks in churches, are hidden away under the guise of do-gooders’ self-satisfaction.