The alleged perpetrator of the knife attack that caused this Friday Three dead and four injured critics in Solingen, western Germany, and which has been claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), has been sent to prisonThe investigating judge of the German Federal Court ordered his arrest on Sunday, charged with murder in three cases and attempted murder in eight others, as well as membership of a foreign terrorist organization.

According to ‘Der Spiegel’, this person This is the author of the attacka 26-year-old man who was arrested 24 hours after his attack after turning himself in at a police station. The newspaper ‘Bild’ adds that the young man turned himself in after 11:00 p.m., telling the officers: “I am the one you are looking for“.

The German prosecutor’s office is investigating this individual on suspicion of committing a triple murdermultiple murder attempts and possible membership in the jihadist organization.

According to police sources who spoke to the newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’, the detainee is a 26-year-old man, identified as “Issa al H.”, of Syrian nationality, who was handed over to the security forces shortly before 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, with clothes stained with bloodand who confessed his responsibility at the time of his arrest.

“We followed a tip and that’s why there was a special forces operation,” said a police spokesman, after media reports that I was making a record at a refugee shelter in the centre of Solingen. “When the evidence is solidified, an arrest is made. When we have the results of the arrest that has been made, we will be able to say more,” the spokesman added.

In an intervention on the German channel ARD, the minister confirmed the arrest and indicated that “there is sufficient evidence” and that the authorship “is something more than an assumption” given that Security forces have “found evidence” in this regardThe detainee came from a refugee shelter, where the police operation that ended with the second of three arrests made so far took place on Saturday.

The detainee had been living in Germany since the end of 2022where he sought asylum and was not previously known to security authorities as an Islamist extremist.

Hours earlier, the Police had already announced thethe arrest of a 15-year-old teenager under suspicion of being related to the knife attack that occurred this past Friday in the city of Solingen and which has so far resulted in three deaths and eight injuries.

“A 15-year-old man was arrested this morning,” police spokesman Thorsten Fleiss said at a press conference. He said the boy was suspected of having had prior knowledge of the incident and of not having acted to prevent it. However, investigators believe that he was not the attacker, who is believed to have acted alone.

The detainee, who was arrested this morning at the family home, was identified based on the testimony of Two people who heard a suspicious conversation before the incident and that they contacted the police after the attack. “We only know that he spoke to one person. Whether that person is the attacker is not certain,” said Markus Caspers, the public prosecutor responsible for the fight against terrorism in the North Rhine-Westphalia region (NRW), at the press conference.

At around 9:45 p.m. (local time) on Friday, a man of unknown identity has He began stabbing people indiscriminately at Fronhof, a market in the city centre where a stage had been set up for the events to commemorate Solingen’s 650th anniversary. He managed to escape in the chaos, leaving three dead and eight injured in his wake, five of them seriously.

Police officials also made public the ages of the dead, two men aged 56 and 67 and a woman aged 56, and the progress of the injured, of whom four are in critical condition, two in serious and two in minor. However, they did not want to confirm the information that appeared in the media about the possible discovery of the murder weapon, a knife, since they pointed out that a lot of material evidence has been collected whose connection to the crime is still being investigated.

Caspers said that, as the police had been saying throughout the day, the suspicion that the attack, which took place at an open-air party during the celebrations for the 650th anniversary of the founding of Solingen, was an act of terrorism cannot be ruled out. “There is no other apparent motive. The victims were unknown, unrelated people. That is why we think it is possible that it was an act of terrorism,” he said.

In the same statement, the police reported the implementation of “various police measures, including searches in several places,” without giving further details.