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BERLIN — A 33-year-old man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing two youngsters and injuring 5 different passengers on a practice in northern Germany had been launched from pretrial detention every week in the past and had earlier legal convictions, investigating officers stated Thursday.
The person, who was recognized as Ibrahim A., a stateless Palestinian who got here to Germany in 2014, allegedly stabbed a number of folks Wednesday afternoon on a regional practice touring from Kiel to Hamburg. A 17-year-old lady and a 19-year-old man died of their wounds, authorities stated.
Two victims have been nonetheless in life-threatening situation and two others have been severely injured. One particular person was barely injured, police stated.
Different passengers overwhelmed the suspect, who was handled at a hospital for slight accidents and is in police custody, native police stated at a press convention in Kiel.
Police and prosecutors stated that the suspect’s legal report included convictions together with for an additional stabbing incident, sexual assault, grievous bodily hurt, and shoplifting. German dpa company stated he had been in pretrial custody for a 12 months due to one other knife crime in Hamburg, earlier than being launched every week in the past.
Earlier than he was registered in Kiel, the suspect additionally lived in Hamburg and within the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Police and prosecutors have been investigating doable motives for the assault, which occurred because the practice approached the city of Brokstedt.
A number of media shops reported that the attacker chased passengers via totally different coaches of the practice and that traces of blood could possibly be present in 4 of them. Some passengers tried to defend themselves by throwing their suitcases at him, German information channel n-tv reported.
Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, the inside minister of Schleswig-Holstein state, the place Brokstedt is positioned, stated the dad and mom of the 2 teenage victims had been knowledgeable of their deaths. Not all different injured victims had been recognized by Thursday midday time, she stated.
“As a result of very dynamic course of the crime, a lot is unclear,” the minister stated. Outcomes of an interrogation of the alleged perpetrator didn’t exist but, so investigators can’t but say something concerning the motive.
She stated investigators have been working below excessive stress to “collect all of the details.”
The state parliament started its session Thursday with a minute of silence for the victims of the assault.
