The three seriously injured victims were transferred to Bavarian hospitals.
This Saturday, three people were injured in a stab attack by a man on a high-speed train in the German region of Bavaria, local police reported, explaining that the attacker was arrested.
The three victims, seriously injured, they were transferred to hospitals in Bavaria. They are currently out of danger, Neumarkt in der Oberplatz police reported.
The alleged aggressor, a 27-year-old man was arrested and “there is no longer any danger”, according to the police, after rumors that there could be several attackers.
No further details are available so far about the man arrested. According to several German media, he is a Syrian citizen with possible psychiatric disorders.
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The Nuremberg Prosecutor’s Office is in charge of the investigation at this stage, and not the Federal Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office.
The motive for the crime is still unknown
Police were alerted around 08:00 GMT of a knife attack on an ICE high-speed train that he was traveling between Bavaria and Hamburg with about 300 passengers on board.
After the attack, the high-speed train was stopped at Seubersdorf station, in the south of the country and an important police device went to the scene.
“This stab attack is horrible,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said. “I would like to thank everyone, especially the police and train staff, for their courageous action, which has prevented something worse,” he added on Twitter.
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“The motive for the crime is still unclear and it will be determined now ”, promised.
Germany has been facing attacks that have two origins for several years: jihadism and the extreme right.
The German authorities are especially attentive to the Islamist threat, especially since a truck attack claimed by the Islamic State group killed 12 people in Berlin in December 2016. This jihadist attack was the deadliest ever committed on German soil.
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Since 2000, the German authorities have thwarted 23 attempted attacks of this type, said the Interior Minister 20 years after September 11, 2001.
“Germany and Western Europe continue in the crosshairs of radical Islamists ”, he warned at the time.
Since 2013, the number of Islamists considered dangerous in Germanya has increased fivefold to 615, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Several of the attacks or attempted attacks were carried out by asylum seekers (a Tunisian, a Syrian and an Afghan) who arrived in Germany during the 2015 migration crisis.
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Back then, Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the doors of the country to some 900,000 asylum seekers.
The authorities stress however that none of the authors arrived in Europe with orders from the IS, unlike some of the attackers on November 13, 2015 in Paris. They all seem to have staged their solo acts.
Germany remains a target for jihadist groups, especially for his participation in the coalition that fights IS in Iraq and Syria and for his presence in Afghanistan until last August. (I)
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