Attack in Würzburg in 2021

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Attack in Würzburg in 2021
Attack in Würzburg 2021 (Germany)
(49 ° 47 ′ 38.08 ″ N, 9 ° 57 ′ 4.36 ″ E)
place Old Town (Würzburg)
date June 25, 2021, approx. 5:00 p.m. ( CEST )
aim Civilians
Type Knife attack
dead 3
Injured at least 7

In the attack in Würzburg in 2021 , a 24-year-old man stabbed people in the old town of Würzburg on June 25, 2021, first in a department store and then on the street with a knife. He killed three people and seriously injured others.

Investigations

Sequence of events

Woolworth branch on Barbarossaplatz (2010)

According to the investigators' findings, the attacker is said to have asked a woman on June 25, 2021 around 5 p.m. in a Woolworth department store where knives were on display. In the household goods department he took a knife and stabbed the woman and then other people in the department store on Barbarossaplatz . He killed three women there, including a mother who was trying to save her daughter's life. He seriously injured the daughter. He then committed further knife attacks on the street and in the opposite branch of the Sparkasse Mainfranken Würzburg . Here several passers-by sat down with chairs, umbrellas, rucksacks and brooms to defend themselves against the man. Alarmed police stopped the knife with a targeted thigh shot.

The Lower Franconian Police President Gerhard Kallert praised the intervention from civil society . This made it possible for the police to have quick access.

To the perpetrator

According to the police, it is a 24-year-old Somali named Abdirahman JA, born in Mogadishu, who came to Germany in May 2015 and applied for asylum . On May 6, 2015, he entered the area of ​​responsibility of the Chemnitz branch of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees . The district office of the Erzgebirgskreis was later responsible for him because of a move , then, for the same reason, the city administration of Düsseldorf . There were no criminal charges against him and he received subsidiary protection and has been living legally in Germany ever since. He lived in Saxony and moved to Würzburg in September 2019. There he lived in a shelter for the homeless in the Zellerau district .

Abdirahman JA has no criminal record. He was twice briefly forced into psychiatric treatment, most recently about a month before the fact, after stopping, he forced a passenger car, had set in and did not want to get out again. One day later he was released because the doctors found no harm to himself or others . As early as January 2021, he had threatened an employee in the homeless shelter with a knife and had been admitted to psychiatry after a police operation. Nobody was injured. A tip from another asylum seeker that the perpetrator had committed crimes in Somalia at the age of twelve was followed up with no results.

On the day after the attack on 25 June was against Abdirahman YES arrest warrant on suspicion of murder in three cases, attempted murder in six cases and grievous bodily harm in a case issued . The investigation also includes the question of whether there could have been neglects in psychiatric treatment, for example whether the stabber should not have been permanently treated as an in-patient.

According to an internal agency note , after his arrest, Abdirahman JA testified that he had committed a " jihad " by the act . A department store detective stated that the perpetrator shouted " Allahu Akbar " during the crime . This gives the investigators evidence of an Islamist motive. The police said hate messages on paper had been found in his accommodation. Several media reported that there was material from the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). Two days after the knife attack, the Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism of the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation.

To the victims

Flowers in memory of the victims, June 26, 2021

According to information from the German Press Agency , three people were killed and seven people injured. All three fatalities were women. Six women were seriously injured in the knife attack, at least two of them were life-threatening, and one male was slightly injured. The fatalities were born in 1939, 1972 and 1996. Women born in 1964, 1981, 1994 and 2010 were injured in the department store. Two women were injured in front of the department store (born in 1974 and 2005).

Commemoration on June 27, 2021

The victim of the attack was commemorated on June 27, 2021. A commemoration ceremony was held for this in the Würzburg Cathedral .

In addition to the Roman Catholic Bishop Franz Jung from Würzburg , representatives of other religions and public life also took part. Würzburg's Lord Mayor Christian Schuchardt ( CDU ), the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster , the Protestant regional bishop Gisela Bornowski and representatives of the Muslim communities were present at the commemoration .

At the crime scene in the city center, Schuchardt and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder ( CSU ) laid a wreath.

Reactions

Joachim Herrmann (CSU), Bavarian State Minister of the Interior , spoke of a "brutal murder". The Bavarian Prime Minister Söder announced a mourning flag .

The Würzburg Bishop Jung was dismayed: "I am deeply shaken by this horrific act of violence," he said , according to a statement from his diocese . “In prayer I am connected to the victims and their families”.

“The crimes of individuals can never be traced back to population groups, religions or nationalities,” Mayor Schuchardt appealed in an open letter to the people of Würzburg. “Even we Germans were not condemned across the board after the Second World War . Neither does this now apply to Somalis or refugees in general. This stereotyped thinking must come to an end. "

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was “shocked”: “The perpetrator acted with extreme brutality. For this inhuman act he is held accountable by the rule of law, ”he declared on June 26, 2021. All of Germany mourned with the relatives of the victims.

See also

Individual evidence

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