The man with the machete in Gorbitz (see tweet above) and the shouts of “Alluah Akbar”. The judiciary wants to “take a closer look at possible Islamist backgrounds”, senior public prosecutor Jürgen Schmidt (45) told the newspaper BILD.
The Eritrean Ismail S. (25) had threatened drunken children with a machete and a knife on Monday evening. An Iraqi (26) intervened, hit the machete man and was injured in the leg.
On the internet, S. posted Koran verses, wrote in German: “I am afraid only of Allah”. Senior public prosecutor Schmidt: “We definitely want the accused to remain in custody.”
The tolerated asylum seeker is known to the police and the judiciary: In March 2018, he sexually harassed a woman in the Neustadt district and hit her in the face with a beer bottle. She lost a tooth. Sentence: eight months on probation.
Before that, Ismail S. had already been fined for theft, fare evasion and drug possession.