The 26-year-old Syrian suspect in the knife attack that killed three people and injured eight others in Solingen on Friday evening has confessed: the police made it known.
It ended where it began. manhunt which kept the audience in suspense Germany for almost 24 hours: in the heart of the town, in a refugee residence at only 300 meters from the scene of the attack, where the man was arrested after the police officers German police of the Special Operations Command (SEK) they broke into you.
This is the first and fragmentary information reported by Picturebut which begin to compose a mosaic with pieces arriving in no particular order throughout the day: first the testimonies on theauthor of the attack who would have shouted “Allah Akhbar!”then one claim of theISIS.
Everything still needs to be officially confirmed, but we know that theaccommodation for asylum seekers where the operation was carried out in the eveningarrest is located at 150 meters from where investigators found theweapon which would have been used by the murderer. According to what has been learned from Picturea police dog led investigators directly to the place where the knife at the residence for asylum seekers in Wupperstrasse / Goerdelerstrasse to Solingen. Thespecial unit then surrounded the building and broke in shortly after 8pm. Several residents they are questioned.
Meanwhile the party for the 650 years Of Solingen which was supposed to last three days was cancelled for mourning. The city is traumatized, the streets remain half empty: the whole Germany he anxiously follows the updates in an attempt to explain the inexplicable: theattack in the crowdmadly, three people killed and eight more woundsin the middle of the ‘Festival of Diversity‘ with which the town of the North Rhine-Westphaliawith the killer on the run for 24 hours.
Second Worlda witness he told the police that during the massacre the perpetrator shouted «Allah Akbar“, after the Prosecutor’s Office he admitted, in press conference to Wuppertalof “not being able to exclude the trail of terrorism». And in the evening from Beirut one has arrived claim of theISIS: «The perpetrator of the attack on a gathering of Christians in the city of Solingen in Germany yesterday he was a soldier of the Islamic State group“, reads a statement from the news agency Amaq jihadist on Telegram. Theattack It was done “in revenge for the Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.”
Meanwhile, at dawn yesterday, the men of the special commando Sek they had already carried out an arrest: a fifteen year old discovered at the home of parentssuspected of having spoken with the perpetrator of the crime just a few minutes before the 21.37the time recorded by the police as the beginning of theattackIt was reported by a woman who had recognized the boy, already involved in another crime, according to what was always written by Picture. The investigations aim to clarify whether the teenagermeanwhile questioned, was actually interacting with theattacker. The research had however concentrated on a young among the 20 hey 30 years oldthe thick beardThe fit physiquethe aspect that suggests a «coming from the south». Dressed in black and with a hood.
The Attorney Markus Caspers and the Police President Markus Roehrl they confirmed that those killed by the gunfire lamawhich also aimed straight at neckthere were two men Of 67 And 56 years old and one woman Of 56. Five people I am seriously wounds and still in danger of life.
The Chancellor Olaf Scholzunder obvious pressure, asked for speed in the investigation: «The responsible must be stopped quickly and punished with harshness. We cannot allow such things to happen in our country,” he said. president Frank Walter Steinmeier he called the Mayor of Solingento express the dismay and the personal condolences and of the whole Republic: «We are together against thehatred and the violence». The Interior Minister Nancy Faeser he assured that “everything possible” is being done to ensure the multiple murderer to justice. But he added that “society will not allow itself to be divided”, in the face ofdisgusting act of those who hit a community gathered to celebrate the jubilee.