A girl kneels at a makeshift memorial with flowers and candles for the victims on August 24, 2024, close to the location the place at the least three individuals had been killed and a number of other others injured when a person attacked them with a knife on the night of August 23, 2024 in Solingen, western Germany. | Photograph credit score: AFP
German police stated early Sunday (August 25, 2024) {that a} 26-year-old man has turned himself in, claiming to be behind the lethal knife assault in Solingen that left three useless and eight injured at a pageant marking town’s 650th anniversary.
In a joint assertion with the general public prosecutor’s workplace, Düsseldorf police stated the person “claimed accountability for the assault” and had already been arrested, however gave no additional particulars. “The involvement of this individual within the crime is at present being intensively investigated,” the assertion stated.
On Saturday (25 August 2024), the Islamic State militant group claimed accountability for the assault, with out offering proof. The extremist group stated on its information website that the attacker focused Christians and carried out the assaults on Friday evening “to avenge Muslims in Palestine and in every single place.” The declare couldn’t be independently verified.
Authorities had beforehand stated a 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion that he knew in regards to the deliberate assault and didn’t inform authorities, however that he was not the attacker. Two feminine witnesses informed police they’d heard the boy and an unknown individual earlier than the assault speaking about intentions that included bloodshed, authorities stated.
Shortly after 9.30pm native time on Friday, police alerted residents {that a} man had attacked a number of individuals with a knife within the metropolis’s central sq., the Fronhof. The three individuals killed had been two males aged 67 and 56 and a girl aged 56, in accordance with authorities. Police stated the attacker appeared to have intentionally focused his victims’ throats.
Solingen, a metropolis of about 160,000 individuals positioned close to the bigger cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf, was holding a “Range Pageant” to mark its anniversary. The occasion started on Friday and was as a result of run by Sunday, with a number of levels on central streets providing points of interest similar to stay music, cabaret and acrobatics. The assault befell in entrance of one of many levels.
The pageant was cancelled as police looked for clues within the cordoned-off sq..
