[arista]

2nd Person arrested


The man was in a refugee centre
in Germany.

[arista]

ISIS has claimed responsibility
for this stabbing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...tabber-germany


https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/german...tack-1.7303920

[Ammi]

German stabbing suspect is 26-year-old Syrian man who admitted to the crime…

FRANKFURT, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The suspect in custody for a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man, authorities said early on Sunday.
The suspect turned himself in and admitted to the crime, Duesseldorf police and prosecutors said in a joint statement.
"The involvement of this person is currently under intensive investigation," they said.
The details provide a somewhat fuller picture of an account late on Saturday by a state official who announced on German television the arrest of the man that authorities had been searching for in the 24 hours since the attack.

The attack, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, occurred on Friday evening at a festival to celebrate the city's 650-year history.



https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ay-2024-08-25/



…it’s such a relief to know that he’s in custody now and unable to harm anyone else…

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Ammi

German stabbing suspect is 26-year-old Syrian man who admitted to the crime…

FRANKFURT, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The suspect in custody for a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man, authorities said early on Sunday.
The suspect turned himself in and admitted to the crime, Duesseldorf police and prosecutors said in a joint statement.
"The involvement of this person is currently under intensive investigation," they said.
The details provide a somewhat fuller picture of an account late on Saturday by a state official who announced on German television the arrest of the man that authorities had been searching for in the 24 hours since the attack.

The attack, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, occurred on Friday evening at a festival to celebrate the city's 650-year history.



https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ay-2024-08-25/



…it’s such a relief to know that he’s in custody now and unable to harm anyone else…

It's not a relief at all, in fact it's more worrying than ever, that this man is an ISIS fighter, and also an immigrant who I'm assuming made the same trip as the 100s of thousands that we have in our country now.

[Nicky91]

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-wants-...aws/a-69963224

Germany wants to get tough on knife crime with stricter laws

A knife attack in the city of Solingen on Friday night has refocussed attention on Germany's laws regulating the carrying of knives in public. "It is clear to me that our security services must have more powers to detect such perpetrators early on, especially in the digital space," the deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary group, Dirk Wiese, told the Rheinische Post newspaper on Saturday. "We also need to finally make progress on knife bans."

Earlier this month, the German government promised tougher knife laws after the police reported a rise in the number of stabbings, especially near train stations — though the statistics remain controversial.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) called for the law to be changed so that only blades of 6 centimeters (2.36 inches) would be allowed to be carried in public, rather than the current 12 centimeters. An exception would be made for household knives in their original packaging. Switchblades would be banned altogether.

"Knives are used to commit brutal acts of violence that can cause serious injury or death," Faeser told the ARD public broadcaster in early August. "We need tougher weapons laws and stricter controls."

The government pronouncement came after police statistics recorded a 9.7% year-on-year rise in cases of serious bodily harm involving a knife, with 8,951 incidents in 2023. The federal police, which is responsible for safety at Germany's airports and major railway stations, also reported a significant increase in knife attacks in and around stations, with 430 in the first six months of this year.

Controversial stats
But the police have only been collecting knife crime statistics since 2021, and criminologists are wary of defining the latest figures as a trend. Dirk Baier, a German criminologist at the Institute of Delinquency and Crime Prevention in Zurich, said Germany really doesn't have much data on knife crime at all.

"The police includes both knife attacks that were carried out and threats with knives, so it's a very vague category," he told DW. "And it's only been a short while, so the numbers aren't really reliable."

That hasn't stopped the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) from using the numbers to suggest that the country's "migration policy" was to blame. "We have exploding foreign crime, youth crime, migrant violence, because we have open borders," AfD co-leader Alice Weidel told public broadcaster ZDF in July.

Meanwhile, the German media has become increasingly interested in knife crime in the past few months, following the killing in May of a policeman in Mannheim by an Afghan refugee, in what appears to have been an Islamist motivated attack on an anti-Islamist activist.

But criminologists don't see a link between violent crime and immigrant background. Though non-Germans are disproportionately represented in police knife crime statistics, that in itself is not a very helpful insight, argued Baier.

"If we look closer at the group of non-Germans, we find very different groups of people: There are Eastern Europeans, North Africans, we have South Americans, we have people of Arab background," he said. "Those are very different cultures, so we can't say there's anything like a specific 'knife' culture, or an ethnic background that has a direct connection to carrying knives."

"We really need to talk less about the country they came from, but the circumstances of their lives," he added. "In what milieus do they grow up? Among which friends, that they think it's important to carry knives? What's their educational background? We need to look at their social circumstances, and not get stuck on nationality."

How to police knife crime?
Given this, Baier is skeptical that Faeser's law will make much difference in the long term. Nevertheless, he argued that it might at least simplify Germany's legislation, which is currently very complicated, as each state has its own rules about what kinds of knives are and aren't allowed.

"It's a good signal, so to speak," he said. "But if you're looking for the benefit in terms of preventing knife crime, then I would say that it has no benefit." People who carry dangerous knives will continue to do so, whether they are legal or not, Baier argued.

That speaks to the more immediate problem of how to police possible attacks in the first place. Lars Wendland, chairperson of the German police union GdP, welcomed Faeser's proposal in principle, but argued that police needed more than just a legal change to work effectively. "What use is a tightening of the law if we can't enforce it?" he told DW. "We also have to look at whether we have the personnel and material to implement it."

Wendland thinks facial recognition surveillance and allowing the police to carry out random checks in certain "no weapons zones" would be a good start. But those measures haven't been mentioned by Faeser yet — and it's doubtful that they would even be within her remit, since designating such zones is typically the job of local governments.

No weapons zones have been introduced in certain German cities, and while there is little evidence that they actually led to a reduction in violent crime, according to Baier, they do appear to make people feel safer. "There have been scientific studies on no weapons zones in Leipzig and Wiesbaden — both have shown that criminality hasn't dropped noticeably. But populations felt more safety. I think that's most probably because more police were around," he said.

Knife crime has become a major issue elsewhere in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, where the government also introduced new bans on large bladed weapons late last year.

in Cologne they have these no weapon zones for example

[arista]

Originally Posted by Beso

It's not a relief at all, in fact it's more worrying than ever, that this man is an ISIS fighter, and also an immigrant who I'm assuming made the same trip as the 100s of thousands that we have in our country have.

Valid Points.

We could have the same.


Evil ISIS

[Nicky91]

anyone can commit these attacks with knives, not only ISIS terrorists


we need more of these no weapon zones, indeed that they need to be stricter, every country in the world needs to be stricter to prevent more of these attacks

[Ammi]

…I don’t know if this report/article is correct but it states that the police didn’t locate the attacker…he turned himself in….and had also been arrested before so lots of questions for the German authorities …

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/20...nife-attacker/

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I don’t know if this report/article is correct but it states that the police didn’t locate the attacker…he turned himself in….and had also been arrested before so lots of questions for the German authorities …

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/20...nife-attacker/

It said he had turned himself in the first article you posted

[Nicky91]

an ISIS terrorist who turns himself in


doesn't make that much sense, or does it?



most terrorists don't want to end up caught, unless this dude here was just recently ''recruited/hired''

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Cherie

It said he had turned himself in the first article you posted

…ooops, so it did…early morning haziness, I reckon…

[arista]

The Terrorist has been Charged with Murder



[The Syrian national Issa Al H is accused
of being "a member of a terrorist organisation abroad",
saying he shares the "ideology of Islamic State" (IS).]

https://news.sky.com/story/german-pr...tival-13202925

[bots]

Originally Posted by Beso

It's not a relief at all, in fact it's more worrying than ever, that this man is an ISIS fighter, and also an immigrant who I'm assuming made the same trip as the 100s of thousands that we have in our country now.

well, with that attitude, you may as well stay at home and never go out again until all foreign blood is removed from the land

[Beso]

Originally Posted by bots

well, with that attitude, you may as well stay at home and never go out again until all foreign blood is removed from the land

You can judge that fact I've posted whatever way you want.

My opinion.. Its worrying, and should be addressed immediately by our government. It's a pity they are to busy welching on pensioners and locking up people with true concerns about who us actually arriving illegally by boat.

If you prefer sweeping stuff like that ander the carpet to look good on an internet forum, well, that is your issue, and not mine.

[arista]

The AfD last night
stated when they get full power
all Syrians, Iraquis and Afghans
will all be sent back.

Any now there
will now will only get a bed,
water and
soap.



Ch4HDnews Report last night in Germany