Berlin police say they’ve detained a person who attacked and injured two individuals within the metropolis’s Charlottenburg neighborhood, additional jolting Germany days after a lethal Christmas market assault elsewhere within the nation
BERLIN — Berlin police stated they detained a person Tuesday who attacked and injured two individuals within the metropolis’s Charlottenburg neighborhood, additional jolting Germany days after a lethal Christmas market assault elsewhere within the nation.
Police stated the attacker was a Syrian citizen with residency in Sweden.
“Preliminary findings point out that the suspect could have indicators of psychological sickness and that there’s not indication for a terrorist motivation,” police spokeswoman Jane Berndt advised The Related Press, including that the investigation remains to be ongoing.
A police assertion known as it an “tried homicide.” It stated the person attacked two males in a grocery store and on a sidewalk in entrance of a close-by lodge shortly earlier than midday, allegedly stabbing them with a knife he had stolen from the grocery store.
Each had been taken to a hospital, and police stated one was launched after outpatient remedy.
Berlin media retailers earlier reported that the person seemed to be randomly attacking. They reported that a number of passersby pounced on the attacker and overpowered him till police arrived.
Charlottenburg is a usually quiet district of the German capital.
Germany remains to be reeling from the lethal Christmas market assault this month through which 5 individuals had been killed and greater than 200 had been injured within the japanese metropolis of Magdeburg. A Saudi physician was arrested on homicide expenses.
