‘RANDOM’ MANGO SPREADS AT GERMANY FESTIVAL LEAVES DEAD, OTHERS INJURED: REPORT
The attack occurred shortly before noon in a park in Aschaffenburg, a city of about 72,000 inhabitants. Bavaria’s most sensible security official, Joachim Herrmann, said that the attacker attacked the boy, who was part of a daycare children’s organization, with a kitchen knife. .
He said the 2-year-old boy, of Moroccan origin, was killed, as was a 41-year-old German who was passing by and who appeared to have intervened to protect the other children. Bavarian authorities said two adults and a 2-year-old child were killed. A one-year-old Syrian woman was injured and taken to hospital for treatment, with none of her lives in danger.
Other bystanders chased the suspect and arrested him 12 minutes after the attack, Herrmann said.
Emergency vehicles are seen near the crime scene in Aschaffenburg, Germany, Wednesday, January 22, 2025, where two other people were killed in a stabbing attack. (Ralf Hettler/dpa AP)
He said the suspect, a 28-year-old Afghan national, had come to the government’s attention at least three times because of acts of violence. Each time, he was sent to psychiatric treatment and then released.
The suspect is believed to have arrived in Germany in November 2022 and applied for asylum in early 2023, Herrmann said. On Dec. 4, he told the government that he would leave the country voluntarily and seek documents at the Afghan consulate. A week later, the German government officially shut down the asylum procedure and asked him to leave.
Police will investigate in the coming days to identify his motive, Herrmann said, adding that suspicions point to his psychiatric illness. An initial search of his room at a refugee shelter revealed no evidence of his radical Islamic views and found only medication suitable for his psychiatric treatment, he said.
The attack comes politically a month before the German national elections.
Scholz issued a strongly-worded statement condemning what he called “an incomprehensible act of terror.”
“I’m tired of seeing these types of violence happening here every few weeks, from perpetrators coming to us to find cover here,” he said. “There is no need for wrongful tolerance here. The government will have to explain, under wonderful pressure, why the attacker was still in Germany. “
This will have to have “immediate consequences; just talking is not enough,” Scholz added. He did not specify.
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Following a stabbing attack on an Afghan migrant in Mannheim in May, which killed one police officer and injured four others, Scholz vowed that Germany would resume deportations of criminals from Afghanistan and Syria. He pledged to step up deportations of asylum seekers rejected after a knife attack. in Solingen in August, in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people.
In late August, Germany deported Afghan citizens to their country for the first time since the Taliban returned to force in 2021.
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