In connection with Brokstedt’s deadly knife attack, the Hamburg authorities said they informed the immigration authorities in Kiel early on that the suspected later perpetrator was being arrested in the Hanseatic city. Justice Senator Anna Gallina (Greens) and a representative of the interior authority also reported to the judiciary committee of the citizenship of several unsuccessful attempts to contact the Kiel authority.
The day before, Schleswig-Holstein’s integration minister, Aminata Touré (Greens), had complained that information from Hamburg about the suspected perpetrator had not reached Schleswig-Holstein.
Hamburg: There was no reaction from Kiel
Just one day after he began custody in January 2022, a police officer informed the Kiel immigration authorities by email and asked for consultation. However, despite repeated repetitions, there was no reaction. Only when the immigration office in Kiel was contacted at the beginning of March was there a reaction, said the head of the public safety department in the Hamburg interior authority.
In addition, on May 4th and 5th, the Billwerder prison sent the Kiel immigration authorities documents about Ibrahim A., Gallina said. She did not want to comment directly on the Kiel accusation that she had not been informed from Hamburg. It’s not about “putting a buck somewhere, but that’s the record,” she said.
The 33-year-old Palestinian Ibrahim A. stabbed other passengers with a knife on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg last Wednesday. Two young people died and five others were injured, some seriously. The suspect, who has several previous convictions, had been released from custody in Hamburg just under a week earlier.
