Schöntal Park, where the events took place, was closed.
According to police, a man was “taken into custody”. He is a 28-year-old Afghan. There are no other suspects. According to the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the suspect suffers from “psychological disorders and has already undergone treatment on several occasions”. He allegedly attacked a group of children accompanied by an educator. A 41-year-old man intervened and was killed. The second victim is a 2-year-old boy.
“Today is a terrible day for all of Bavaria,” says Markus Söder, the head of the regional government, on X.
Aschaffenburg is located in the state of Bavaria, just under 40 kilometers southeast of Frankfurt am Main. Schöntal Park is located near the city center. Last November, the police classified parts of the nine-hectare “Schöntal Park” as a “dangerous location”. Police officers regularly patrol the area around the park. Which explains the rapid arrest.
-Scholz wants to know “why” the Afghan suspect “was still in Germany”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz demanded to shed light on the reasons why the Afghan suspect in a knife attack which left two people dead and two seriously injured on Wednesday “was still in Germany”.
According to authorities, the suspect had been reported at least three times for violent acts that resulted in psychiatric treatment. In a message on X, the chancellor denounced “a poorly understood tolerance” towards attackers “who came to us to find protection”.
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