Syrian migrants stab German adult education centre teacher and injure him fatally

It took a few hours for the police to track down the suspected stabbers from Wedel. The motive behind the offence is unclear. The officers believe that the men acted deliberately.
A 67-year-old lecturer has been critically injured in a bloody attack on the grounds of an adult education centre in Wedel near Hamburg. According to the police, he was stabbed in the car park of the school. Two suspects were arrested after a short manhunt. They were two brothers. Both were in their early 20s – one was born in 2002, the other in 2003. The background to the offence was initially unclear.

The victim was hospitalised after the attack in the early afternoon. According to the police, the man’s life was still in mortal danger hours after the attack.
The police assume that the perpetrators wanted to kill their victim. Nothing was initially known about the motive. Initially, up to three perpetrators were being searched for. However, it now appears that there were only two perpetrators, said the spokesman. The homicide squad was to take over the investigation.

🇩🇪- A teacher was seriously injured in a knife attack at an adult education center in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein Germany.
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The police were deployed in large numbers. A Hamburg police helicopter was also called in to support the manhunt from the air. After the crime, police officers cordoned off the school building in order to search it for the perpetrators. In the evening, the spokesman announced that the suspects had been caught in Wedel. According to the police, the suspects were born in Syria.

Wedel is located in the Schleswig-Holstein district of Pinneberg and borders directly on the west of Hamburg. The adult education centre describes itself as the town’s municipal centre for further education. ‘The adult education centre is a place of lifelong learning, an educational and meeting centre for all citizens, companies, institutions, clubs and associations in our region,’ says the city’s website. ‘With our work, we stand for equal educational opportunities for all.’

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