Two people, including a child, were killed this Wednesday, January 22, during a knife attack in a park in Aschaffenburg, in the south of Germany, announced local police, who announced that they had apprehended a suspect. The attack, the motives of which are not known at this stage, occurred “around 11:45 a.m. in Schöntal Park, causing the death of two people”a 41-year-old man and a 2-year-old boy, said the police on his X account. The suspect apprehended is a 28-year-old Afghan, said the police.
According to local media The Echo of the Handchildcare workers from a nursery in Aschaffenburg (Bavaria), a town located near Frankfurt, allegedly went to Schöntal Park with five young children. The suspect allegedly followed this group. “The childcare workers noticed it and wanted to leave the park”and it was as they were preparing to leave that the man allegedly attacked the group with a knife. “He would have obviously targeted children”specifies The Echo of the Hand. A childcare worker was also injured and is hospitalized.
Several attacks in recent months
This attack comes in a troubled security context in Germany. On December 20, Taleb A., a 50-year-old Saudi doctor, drove a car into the crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg (Saxony-Anhalt), killing six people and injuring around 300, before being arrested by police. police.
Germany has also been rocked by several knife attacks in recent months. The country was particularly shocked by an attack in Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia) where the alleged perpetrator, a Syrian suspected of links with the Islamic State organization, stabbed three people to death during local festivities at the end of August .
-In June, a knife attack targeting an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg) left one person dead, a young police officer who had intervened. The alleged attacker was an Afghan national. The German government subsequently banned the carrying of bladed weapons in popular gatherings and in long-distance transport.
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