Knife attack in Hamburg on July 28, 2017

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Knife attack in Hamburg on July 28, 2017
Fuhlsbüttler Str. (Hamburg)
Fuhlsbüttler Str.
Fuhlsbüttler Str.
place Fuhlsbüttler Strasse 188, Barmbek-Nord , Hamburg
date July 28, 2017, approx. 3:10 p.m. ( CEST )
target Civilians
Type Knife attack
dead 1
Injured 5
Perpetrator Ahmad Alhaw

During the knife attack in Hamburg on July 28, 2017 , the 26-year-old asylum seeker Ahmad Alhaw stabbed customers in a supermarket in the Barmbek-Nord district . He killed a 50-year-old man and injured five other people, some seriously. On March 1, 2018, Alhaw was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, the gravity of which was determined.

Sequence of events

Police car in Fuhlsbüttler Strasse

At 3:10 p.m., the perpetrator entered the Edeka store at Fuhlsbüttler Strasse 188 and suddenly stabbed customers with a knife that he had taken from a shelf in the supermarket. He stabbed a 50-year-old man and injured a 50-year-old woman and four men aged 67, 57, 56 and 19.

The perpetrator then fled the supermarket in the direction of Barmbek train station . Witnesses persecuted him, threw chairs at him, and overpowered him. The slightly injured perpetrator was arrested by civil investigators. According to witnesses, he shouted " Allahu Akbar " several times during the crime .

After the fact

Heavily armed police officers secured the scene of the crime and rescue workers came with a large contingent. A rescue helicopter landed on Fuhlsbüttler Straße while the police put up road blocks. After the attack stormed special police the refugee camp at the Metro Station Kiwittsmoor in langenhorn where the man lived.

Investigations

The Palestinians Ahmad Alhaw has confessed to the trial began on 12 January 2018 to have committed the knife attack. He said he had religious motives. His aim was to murder as many German citizens of Christian faith as possible.

Alhaw was born - according to his own statements at a hearing in a BAMF branch office - on January 30, 1991 in al-Baha ( Saudi Arabia ), where his family had lived for a long time. According to the information, he moved with his family to the refugee settlement of Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip when he was still a child . 2008 - shortly after graduating from high school - left Alhaw Gaza again and traveled with the help of a tractor to Egypt to dentistry to study. He broke off this course after a year, flew to Turkey and from there traveled on via Greece to Norway, where his uncle Jamal Alhaw, a retired flight captain, lived. According to his uncle, his nephew intended to complete his studies in Europe. Apparently he assumed that he could get an education in Europe without any problems. In 2009 he applied for asylum in Norway; this was rejected about half a year later. His opposition to this was unsuccessful. In 2013 he applied for asylum in Sweden. Sweden returned Alhaw to Norway on time, with reference to the Dublin regulations. In October 2013, Ahmad Alhaw left Norway and, according to his own admission, traveled to Spain to apply for asylum there. About eight months later, in June 2014, Spanish authorities allegedly stole his documents and instructed him to return to Norway. Alhaw then submitted a new application in Norway in August 2014. Norwegian authorities again denied the request.

Ahmad Alhaw then left Norway and entered Germany in March 2015, with a birth certificate. His first stop was Dortmund . From there he was assigned to Hamburg as part of the asylum distribution procedure. He moved into the refugee accommodation at Kiwittsmoor underground station and applied for asylum there on May 11, 2015 . This was rejected in December 2016. Since then, Ahmad Alhaw has been obliged to leave the country. Further identification papers that were not available would have been necessary for deportation. Alhaw apparently wanted to leave the country himself at this point, did not appeal his negative asylum decision and cooperated with the authorities in obtaining replacement papers. The Palestinian Mission Berlin, the diplomatic mission of the Palestinian territories in Germany, had agreed to recognize him as a member of their ethnic group and to procure replacement papers. On the day of the attack, Ahmad Alhaw asked the immigration authorities whether his documents had arrived in the meantime; This was not the case.

According to the police, Ahmad Alhaw was the sole perpetrator. Alhaw was known to the authorities as an Islamist and had contacts in the Salafist scene. The perpetrator was noticed as a drug user and because of a particular hatred of Germans . After Alhaw suddenly stopped drinking alcohol and loudly recited verses from the Koran in refugee cafés, a friend drew the police's attention to him in August 2016. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution then questioned him and made further inquiries. It was classified as a suspected case but not as dangerous.

The police said after the fact that Ahmad Alhaw's current nationality was being clarified. On July 31, the Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice took over the investigation because of the "special significance of the case" and because an Islamist background was suspected.

Missed return

According to information from Spiegel , Ahmad Alhaw could have been deported to Norway shortly after entering Germany in spring 2015 under the rules of the Dublin system . The Dublin rules state that the EU Member State that the asylum seeker entered first is responsible for the asylum procedure if the state in which the applicant is staying makes a takeover request. The non-EU state Norway recognized these provisions through an additional agreement (see Regulation (EC) No. 343/2003 (Dublin II) . The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) took Ahmad's fingerprints on May 13, 2015 Alhaw and, when compared with the European database EURODAC, found that he had already - unsuccessfully - applied for asylum in Norway. Therefore, Norway was responsible for him according to the rules of the Dublin Agreement. On 14 July 2015, the BAMF therefore issued a withdrawal Request (takeover request) to Norway, but missed the deadline for such cases by one day. As a result, Norway refused to take Ahmad Alhaw back. The Federal Republic was responsible for him. That was when the peak of the refugee crisis in 2015 began , with hundreds of thousands pouring into Germany Alhaw's asylum application remained unprocessed and was only rejected at the end of 2016.

accusation

On October 27, 2017, the Federal Prosecutor's Office brought charges before the State Security Senate of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg against Ahmad Alhaw for murder as well as sixfold attempted murder and sixfold dangerous bodily harm (Section 211, Section 223 (1), Section 224 (1) No. 2 and 5) , §§ 22, 23, 52, 53 StGB), but not because of suspicion of terrorism .

Reactions

Flowers in front of the supermarket

politics

The Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz , laid flowers together with Interior Senator Andy Grote (both SPD ) in front of the Edeka market and spoke to eyewitnesses.

“It is very moving, touching to see the scene of the crime, to speak to those who were there and who have experienced, helped or run after the perpetrator. This is a very painful moment for all of us. "

- Olaf Scholz : First Mayor of Hamburg

Ansgar Heveling ( CDU ), chairman of the Bundestag interior committee , called for a stricter German visa policy towards states that did not cooperate in repatriating their citizens. Citizens of such countries should not get a visa for Europe.

Wolfgang Kubicki , one of the three deputy FDP federal chairmen, said the case showed deficiencies in the deportation practice of some federal states and municipalities. Criminals and extremists should be monitored and deported as a matter of priority. More staff and better equipment are needed. Legal possibilities such as detention pending deportation are already given and only need to be exhausted.

The chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany , Aiman ​​A. Mazyek , declared: “[...] There are people among us who actually have no right to do so, and who endanger our society, but who are not consistently deported. It often takes years before consequences are drawn or penalties pronounced. The state must act here. "

The CDU member of the Bundestag Christian von Stetten said: “The Hamburg case clearly shows that the responsible authorities did not manage to process all cases in the given time and to bring back the unauthorized people living with us to the country responsible for them. The fact that this failure has now cost human lives is rightly criticized by the population. ”He called on the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) to name further cases of missed deadlines:“ There are certainly several hundred cases where those affected should have left our country long ago. I am now waiting for the announced written statement from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees on the Hamburg case. In addition, the BAMF should report in how many other cases deadlines were missed and how many people cannot be returned to their countries of origin because they destroyed their papers on the way to Germany. "

media

Daniel Deckers commented in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that it was "not done with the mourning for the murder victim, the sympathy for the relatives and the recovery wishes for the injured". Only more competencies for the federal government in matters of deportation could lead to the urgently needed acceleration and standardization of departure and deportation practice. The SPD and the Greens , who set the tone in most countries, played their part in ensuring that it took the courageous intervention of the “Heroes of Barmbek” to stop a murderer.

Stefan Kuzmany commented in Der Spiegel that despite all the horror of the attack, it was good news that a mixed group of people with and without a migration background had come together for an act of moral courage and stopped the knife bomber. Unfortunately, there are violent fanatics, but there are many more courageous and sensible people who are not afraid and do not allow themselves to be incited: "If the attacker actually wanted to spark a religious war in Germany, then it failed spectacularly."

Other media also emphasized that some of the perpetrators' persecutors also had a migration background. Among other things, there were people of Tunisian, Turkish, Egyptian and Afghan descent, including a native German of Tunisian descent and a 35-year-old Turk who suffered injuries when the perpetrator was overpowered.

Honor for moral courage

On August 2, 2017, the seven men who had thrown chairs and stones at Ahmad Alhaw and prevented him from escaping were honored by the Hamburg Police Association with the Ian Karan Prize for moral courage . Hamburg's police chief Ralf Martin Meyer spoke of the “heroes of Barmbek” who were “incredibly brave”: “Here there is no if, and here there is no but: With this type of aggressive offender who is in a rage there was only one way to stop it. ”The prize is endowed with 500 euros per person. In October 2017, another man was honored with the Ian Karan Prize for his help in establishing Alhaw. The Ghanaian had taken his weapon from the stabber and was therefore initially mistaken for the perpetrator by the rushing police officers. After clarifying the situation, the helper then gave his personal details and left the scene to bring his brother an urgently needed key. Its important role only became clear during the investigation.

judgment

On March 1, 2018, the State Security Senate of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court sentenced Ahmad Alhaw to life imprisonment in six cases of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm. In addition, the court determined the particular gravity of the guilt, which makes it difficult to dismiss after 15 years. It thus corresponded to the demand of the Federal Prosecutor's Office .

Web links

Commons : Knife attack in Hamburg on July 28, 2017  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: After the knife attack in Hamburg: Honoring the "Heroes of Barmbek"  - message

Individual evidence

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