The man who injured a woman and a man with a knife in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf district is now in custody. A judge issued a warrant for the arrest of the 29-year-old Afghan for attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.
However, the motive for the crime remained unclear on Monday. According to the public prosecutor’s office, Abdul Malik A. did not comment on the matter during questioning. As reported, he stabbed a 58-year-old landscape gardener several times in the neck with a knife on Saturday afternoon on Prinzregentenstraße in Wilmersdorf. He is said to have been disturbed by the fact that she apparently employed as a woman. A 66-year-old man who tried to assist the woman was also severely stabbed in the neck by the attacker.
“There are certain indications that the man is mentally disturbed,” said Martin Steltner, spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor’s office on Monday. “But there are also indications of an Islamist motive. We are now looking into both.” Steltner did not want to be more specific.
Abdul Malik A. came to Germany as a refugee in 2016. He last lived in a one-room flat in the Bayerisches Viertel in Wilmersdorf. According to information from the Berliner Zeitung, he had tried several times to convert other people to Islam. In one case, he allegedly tried it on police officers, who caught him damaging election posters.
The case is possibly similar to the case of an Iraqi refugee , who had “delusional religious and Islamist motives” and rammed several cars and motorcyclists on the city motorway. Several people were injured, some seriously, during the crime last summer. After the crime, he put an ammunition box on the roof of his car and threatened that “everyone will die”. In addition, according to witnesses, he shouted “Allahu Akbar”, rolled out a prayer rug on the roadway and settled down on it.
Berlin’s AfD parliamentary fraction leader Georg Pazderski said on Monday, among other things: Unfortunately, the Red-Red-Green Senate has long since lost control of security in our city. A further uncontrolled influx of Muslims from Afghanistan and other archaic states must be stopped immediately, he said.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/afghane-versuchte-polizisten-zu-bekehren-li.181177