The arrest came 24 hours after the attack that killed three people in the western German town of Solingen. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the incident.
A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, a state official told German television, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people.
“The real suspect is the one that we’ve arrested just now,” he said. The individual is being questioned and evidence was seized, he said.Describing the man who carried out the attack as a “soldier of the Islamic State”, the militant group said in a statement on its Telegram account: “He carried out the attack in revenge for Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.
Markus Caspers, an official with the public prosecutor’s office in Duesseldorf, said authorities were treating the attack as a possible terrorist incident because there was no other known motive and the victims seemed unrelated.“The perpetrator must be quickly caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a post on X.
He was eventually told to stop, and “since the attacker was still on the run, we hid in a nearby store while police helicopters circled above us,” Topic wrote.Fatal stabbings and shootings are relatively rare in Germany. The government said earlier this month it wanted to toughen rules on knives that can be carried in public by reducing the maximum length allowed.
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