After the fatal knife attack on a regional train in Schleswig-Holstein, the 33-year-old alleged perpetrator was taken into custody on Thursday for two counts of insidious murder and four times attempted manslaughter. This was announced by a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office responsible for the investigation in Itzehoe. Accordingly, the responsible magistrate at the district court corresponded to the arrest warrant against the man requested by the authority.
The stateless Palestinian stabbed passengers on a regional train traveling from Kiel to Hamburg on Wednesday. A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old died, according to the authorities, they knew each other and came from the region. Two people were fatally injured and three others were seriously injured. The suspect was overpowered by witnesses on the train and arrested after it stopped at Brokstedt station.
According to the investigative authorities, the background to the bloody deed is completely unclear. There is “not the slightest indication” of a terrorist background, emphasized the head of the Itzehoe public prosecutor’s office, Carsten Ohlrogge, on Thursday at a press conference with Interior Minister Sabine Sütterlin-Waack (CDU) in Kiel. This warned of “suppositions and speculations” that there were many open questions in the case.
