Germany: Iraqi shouting “Allahu Akbar” stabs car driver

Police in Welver, North Rhine-Westphalia, arrested an Iraqi who attacked a motorist with a knife. The 30-year-old asylum seeker was overpowered and disarmed by a plainclothes police officer, the police said.

At the time of the attack on Wednesday, the man had been intoxicated and had shouted “Allahu Akbar”. However, a search of his flat did not reveal any evidence of an Islamist motive, which is why the State Security Service did not take over the investigation. When asked by the newspaper JUNGEN FREIHEIT, a police spokesperson said that the public prosecutor’s office in Arnsberg had filed an application to have the Iraqi man, who was known to the police, placed in a psychiatric institution.

The case has similarities to the knife attack in Würzburg in June. There, an asylum seeker from Somalia, who was also known to the police, had killed three women with a knife and injured other persons, some of them fatally. He had also shouted “Allahu Akbar” and said after his arrest that he wanted to carry out his “jihad”.

https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2021/polizei-irakischen-messerangreifer/