Criminal case in Würzburg in 2021

Criminal case in Würzburg in 2021
place	Old Town (Würzburg)
date	June 25, 2021, approx. 5:00 p.m. ( CEST )
aim	Civilians
Type	Knife attack
dead	3
Injured	5+

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

Sequence of events

At around 5 p.m. the police received an emergency call that a man was attacking passers-by on Barbarossaplatz with a knife. After several passers-by had defended themselves against the man with chairs, umbrellas, rucksacks, brooms and a ladder, the police were finally able to stop him with a targeted shot in the leg.

According to the investigators' first findings, the attacker is said to have asked a salesperson in a Woolworth department store where the knives are on display. There he took a knife and stabbed people in the department store on Barbarossaplatz . According to the investigation, he then continued his attacks on the street and in a savings bank branch.

Perpetrator

According to the police, it is a 24-year-old police acquaintance - according to SPIEGEL information - Somali born in Mogadishu named Abdirahman JA, who came to Germany in May 2015 and applied for asylum . He received subsidiary protection and initially lived in Saxony until he moved to Würzburg in September 2019. There he was registered as living in a homeless shelter in the Zellerau district . Shortly before the crime, he was forcibly undergoing psychiatric treatment. In addition, a knife was removed from him and seized in January 2021. According to an internal official note, after his arrest, Abdirahman JA testified that he had carried out his " jihad " by the act .

Victim

Memory of the victims on Barbarossaplatz

According to information from the German Press Agency, three people were killed and five people injured. Most of the victims were women. Numerous people were injured in the knife attack, two of whom were still in mortal danger the day after the knife attack.

Web links

Knife attack in Würzburg - Interior Minister Herrmann speaks of an Islamist motive , In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 26, 2021.
The Würzburg assassin stabbed in the department store , In: Focus , June 26, 2021.
Suspect describes knife attack as his "jihad" , In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 26, 2021.

Individual evidence

↑ Knife attack in Würzburg: signs of an Islamist motive are growing. In: NZZ. Retrieved June 26, 2021 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, Sven Röbel, Roman Lehberger, Matthias Gebauer: Würzburg: Suspect calls knife attack his "jihad". In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved June 26, 2021 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Radio Network Germany (RND) : What we know so far about the knife attack in Würzburg. Retrieved June 26, 2021 (German).
↑ The Würzburg knife attacker was known to the police. Retrieved June 26, 2021 (German).

[1] Knife attack in Würzburg: signs of an Islamist motive are growing. In: NZZ. Retrieved June 26, 2021 .

[:1-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, Sven Röbel, Roman Lehberger, Matthias Gebauer: Würzburg: Suspect calls knife attack his "jihad". In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved June 26, 2021 .

[:0-3] Radio Network Germany (RND) : What we know so far about the knife attack in Würzburg. Retrieved June 26, 2021 (German).

[4] The Würzburg knife attacker was known to the police. Retrieved June 26, 2021 (German).