- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Police confirmed multiple fatalities after a mass stabbing in Wurzburg on Friday
- The suspect has been identified as a 24-year-old Somali man living in Wurzburg
- Videos showed pedestrians holding the attacker at bay with chairs and sticks
- A witness reported that the knifeman shouted 'Allah Akbar' before the attack
He sure did. The first video shows him being held at bay, the second being chased by angry locals. He is very lucky the police stopped him before the crowd did. Deutsche Welle has more:
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SUSPECTED ATTACKER- The suspected perpetrator is a 24-year old Somalian man who lives in Würzburg, police said on Twitter
- He has lived in Würzburg since 2015
- The suspect was receiving psychiatric care, Herrmann said
- In the past months, the suspect had drawn attention for "violent actions or readiness," Herrmann said
A MOTIVE FOR THE ATTACK
Investigators are looking into the motivation for the attack. According to a police spokesperson, the suspect is not known to the police for crimes that "lean in the direction of Islamic extremism."
Herrmann said that he is not excluding any possibility: "In any case, there is circumstantial evidence that this could have been an Islamist attack."
Herrmann cited a witness who alleged that the attacker had shouted the common Islamic phrase "Allahu Akbar," which means "God is great."
| The Times of Israel points out: |
But numbers have declined since then, with just 615 considered dangerous by the latest count — compared with 730 in January 2018.
On top of that, there are also 521 people “who have attracted the attention of the security services but have not yet reached the stage of being considered dangerous”.
| Update from the Daily Mail at 9:50 a.m. ET: |
Bavaria's top security official, Joachim Herrmann, said the suspect had been known to police and had been admitted to a psychiatric unit just a few days earlier.
'His condition had been noticed in recent months, including
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