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Police have shot a knifeman who injured several people in an attack at a far-right event in the German city of Mannheim.

It happened in the southwestern city's Marktplatz square shortly after 11.35am local time.
An anti-Islam group was holding an event in the square

Moments before, the video shows the attacker wrestling with a man on the ground and swinging wildly with a knife as others try to pull him off.

The victim appears to have a leg wound.

In a livestream earlier in the morning, anti-Islam activist Michael Stuerzenberger was seen preparing to speak to a small crowd in the square.

Bild said he was one of those injured.

Mr Stuerzenberger has been a member of several far-right groups, including the PEGIDA movement that holds regular marches in German cities.

German interior minister Nancy Faeser said the policeman was "seriously injured" and called Islamist extremism a "great danger".

She didn't confirm the condition of the attacker.

"I would like to thank the police officers who intervened immediately and the doctors and paramedics who are fighting for the lives of the victims of this terrible crime," said the minister.

Source: Sky News
 
Wishing those who suffered injuries a speedy recovery! That’s life, we’ll have to live with it.​
 
A man went on a stabbing spree in Mannheim, Germany, as depicted in videos shared on social media on Friday.
During a stabbing rampage, a police officer was among the injured individuals.

According to authorities, the assailant was confronted using a firearm, resulting in the suspect being injured. They assured the public that there was no longer any immediate danger.


The incident unfolded amidst a right-wing demonstration on one of Mannheim's central squares. Videos captured at the scene depict civilians attempting to restrain the attacker, who was observed stabbing a police officer. Eventually, another police officer intervened and shot the suspect while the assailant was engaged in a struggle with another individual.

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Video: Knife-wielding man goes on rampage at far-right rally in Germany

The incident unfolded amidst a right-wing demonstration.
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FRANKFURT, June 2 (Reuters) - A 29-year-old policeman stabbed on Friday in the German city of Mannheim during an attack on a right-wing demonstration has died, authorities said on Sunday.

The attack was carried out by a 25-year old man with a knife, who severely injured six individuals, according to police in the German state of Baden Wuerttemberg, where Mannheim is located.

"He stabbed the police officer several times in the head," the police statement said, adding the officer underwent emergency surgery immediately after the attack and was placed in an induced coma but succumbed to his injuries on Sunday.

 
How?? Is Islamophobia bad thing? Yes.

The protests were by far-right group against what???

And during protest you get stabbed by member of the group they are protesting against. Isn’t that ironic??

Being afraid (phobia) of Islam is understandable because you get stabbed in the neck if you critise it.

It’s up to the followers of the faith to change their image.
 
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IndoorCricket said:
How?? Is Islamophobia bad thing? Yes.

The protests were by far-right group against what???

And during protest you get stabbed by member of the group they are protesting against. Isn’t that ironic??

Being afraid (phobia) of Islam is understandable because you get stabbed in the neck if you critise it.

It’s up to the followers of the faith to change their image.
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Learn how to defrenciate. Can't paint 1.5 billion muslims with the same brush with a Looney pshyco path.

It's clear in Islam. Killing of anyone innocent is a unforgivable crime, and one cannot be a Muslim.

www.egypttoday.com

10 hadiths, Quranic verses that forbid murder of non-Muslims

Ten sayings of Prophet Mohamed and Quranic verses that address the persecution of non-Muslims.
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Any way, speedy recovery to the victims, and lock this lunatic away for good, be it, he may have mental health issues.
 
aboveandbeyond said:
Learn how to defrenciate. Can't paint 1.5 billion muslims with the same brush with a Looney pshyco path.

It's clear in Islam. Killing of anyone innocent is a unforgivable crime, and one cannot be a Muslim.

www.egypttoday.com

10 hadiths, Quranic verses that forbid murder of non-Muslims

Ten sayings of Prophet Mohamed and Quranic verses that address the persecution of non-Muslims.
www.egypttoday.com www.egypttoday.com
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The group who were anti- Islam and blaspheming are innocent according to Islam?
What is the punishment for blasphemy?
 
German police hunt knife attacker after three killed at festival

A manhunt is under way after three people were killed and eight others injured in a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen, police say.

The attack happened during a festival in the city centre on Friday evening. Five of those injured are in a critical condition, according to German media reports.

On Saturday, police said they are still looking for the attacker, with national security forces deployed to the scene. They gave no details of a motive.

The man reportedly stabbed passers-by at random when the industrial city was celebrating 650 years since it was founded.

The attacker is believed to have deliberately stabbed his victims in the neck, local media report.

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday that the assailant must be caught quickly and punished to fullest extent of the law.

Interior minister Nancy Faeser expressed her condolences, saying security authorities are "doing everything they can to catch the perpetrator and determine the background of the attack".

Solingen - a city in North Rhineland-Westphalia famous for its steel industry - has about 160,000 inhabitants. It lies about 15 miles (25 km) east of Düsseldorf and north-east of Cologne.

In a news conference in the early hours of Saturday, regional interior minister Herbert Reul said: "You don't want to believe what you see here at the crime scene. It weighs heavily. My thoughts are with the relatives of the victims and the injured. We can only pray that the seriously injured will survive."

The city's authorities asked people to leave the Fronhof market area after the attack at about 22:00 local time (21:00 BST) on Friday, as police set up security cordons.

Emergency crews at the scene were seen treating the injured and police later deployed 40 tactical vehicles in the hunt for the stabbing suspect, according to German news outlet Bild.

The vehicles are being commanded by SEK (Special Task Force) officers.

Roads have been blocked and residents told to stay indoors as officers carry out their search.

Speaking on Friday, Philipp Müller, one of the festival organisers, said people were shocked but left the square peacefully after the attack.

Eyewitness Lars Breitzke told the Solinger Tageblatt newspaper that he knew something was wrong when he saw a singer on stage with a strange expression on their face.

"And then a person fell over just a metre away from me," he said.

Police spokesman Alexander Kresta was quoted by German media as saying "we are currently assuming that it was one person" after talking to numerous eyewitnesses.

Police also said they "have no indication of his whereabouts", nor details about his appearance.

In a Facebook statement, Solingen Mayor Tim Kurzbach said: "Tonight all of us in Solingen are in shock, horror and great sadness. We all wanted to celebrate our city anniversary together and now we have to mourn the dead and injured.

"It breaks my heart that an attack has happened in our city. I have tears in my eyes when I think of those we've lost. I pray for all those still fighting for their lives. Also my greatest sympathy for all those who had to experience this, these images must have been horrific."

Speaking to the BBC later on Friday, Solinger Tageblatt's deputy editor Björn Boch said the celebrations had been "supposed to last for three days, and the city expected 25,000 people every night.

"The city was just packed with people," he said, estimating that "a few thousand people" were at Friday's free event.

BBC
 
aboveandbeyond said:
Learn how to defrenciate. Can't paint 1.5 billion muslims with the same brush with a Looney pshyco path.

It's clear in Islam. Killing of anyone innocent is a unforgivable crime, and one cannot be a Muslim.

www.egypttoday.com

10 hadiths, Quranic verses that forbid murder of non-Muslims

Ten sayings of Prophet Mohamed and Quranic verses that address the persecution of non-Muslims.
www.egypttoday.com www.egypttoday.com
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Jesus was a Muslim.
Moses was a Muslim.
Adam and Eve were Muslims.
Everyone is a Muslim.

It doesn't matter that they never actually claimed to be Muslims.

But the people who blow up busses and fly planes into towers in the name of Islam, who clearly claim to be Muslims, and supported by other Muslims- "They aren't real Muslims."​
 
Hitman said:
Jesus was a Muslim.
Moses was a Muslim.
Adam and Eve were Muslims.
Everyone is a Muslim.

It doesn't matter that they never actually claimed to be Muslims.

But the people who blow up busses and fly planes into towers in the name of Islam, who clearly claim to be Muslims, and supported by other Muslims- "They aren't real Muslims."​
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Correct
 
Hitman said:
Jesus was a Muslim.
Moses was a Muslim.
Adam and Eve were Muslims.
Everyone is a Muslim.

It doesn't matter that they never actually claimed to be Muslims.

But the people who blow up busses and fly planes into towers in the name of Islam, who clearly claim to be Muslims, and supported by other Muslims- "They aren't real Muslims."​
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That's my point. Islam is a religion of peace. Therefore they are not muslims. The acts of these loonies are more in line Nazis and israelis.

And the religion of Islam has been hijacked by these loonies
 
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Hitman said:
Jesus was a Muslim.
Moses was a Muslim.
Adam and Eve were Muslims.
Everyone is a Muslim.

It doesn't matter that they never actually claimed to be Muslims.

But the people who blow up busses and fly planes into towers in the name of Islam, who clearly claim to be Muslims, and supported by other Muslims- "They aren't real Muslims."​
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Have you met anyone like this? As a Muslim, I have yet to encounter anyone who supports killing in the name of Islam.
 
Germany attack: Police arrest suspected knifeman

German police have arrested a man suspected of killing three people and injuring another eight in Friday's knife attack in the western city of Solingen, a regional minister has said.

"The man we’ve really been looking for the whole day has just been taken into custody," Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, told ARD public TV late on Saturday.

He gave no details, but Germany's Bild and Spiegel news websites reported that the suspect, in dirty blood-stained clothes, had given himself up.

Two men, aged 56 and 67, and a 56-year-old woman were stabbed to death during a festival, in what Chancellor Olaf Scholz described as a "horrific act".

"We have found evidence," Mr Reul told ARD Tagesthemen news.

The minister said he was the man "we most suspected".

A state interior ministry spokesman confirmed that the man had turned himself in.

This was the third arrest on Saturday, following the stabbing attack that shocked Germany.

Earlier police said a man was detained at a refugee centre close to the site of the attack.

Bild reported that special task force (SEK) officers stormed the refugee centre, arresting a suspect.

It said the building was located about 300m (984ft) from Fronhof - Solingen's central market square where people were stabbed on Friday night.

That arrest came a few hours after a 15-year-old boy was detained. Officials said he was not the main suspect - but was alleged to have known about the attack.

The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the attack.

It did not immediately provide any evidence and it was not clear how close any relationship with the attacker was.

The attacker reportedly stabbed passers-by at random during a festival to celebrate 650 years since the industrial city of Solingen was founded.

The situation in the square after the attack was "very hectic", which made it difficult to find the perpetrator, the police said.

They also confirmed that the attacker "targeted" people's throats and necks.

Solingen - a city famous for its steel industry - has about 160,000 inhabitants. It lies about 25km (15 miles) east of Düsseldorf.

The city's authorities asked people to leave the Fronhof area after the attack at about 22:00 local time (21:00 BST) on Friday.

The planned three-day celebrations of the city anniversary - for which about 75,000 people had been expected - were cancelled after the attack.

Solingen Mayor Tim Kurzbach later said that "all of us in Solingen are in shock, horror and great sadness.

"It breaks my heart that an attack has happened in our city. I have tears in my eyes when I think of those we've lost.

"I pray for all those still fighting for their lives. Also my greatest sympathy for all those who had to experience this, these images must have been horrific."

The entrance to Fronhof is now being guarded by police.

People have been bringing flowers and candles to the site of the attack that shocked the entire country.

Players from Germany's top Bundesliga football league wore black armbands during Saturday's matches.

BBC
 
Solingen stabbing attack: suspect believed to be member of Islamic State, say authorities

A suspect arrested over a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen is thought to be a member of Islamic State, federal prosecutors have said, after Friday’s attack in which three people died and eight were injured.

Düsseldorf police and prosecutors said in a joint statement early on Sunday that the suspect in custody was a 26-year-old Syrian man who had turned himself in.

A spokesperson for German federal prosecutors, who have taken over the investigation of the case, also said the man was suspected of being a member of Islamic State. The extremist group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the attack without providing any evidence.

“The involvement of this person is currently under intensive investigation,” the joint statement said.

North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister, Herbert Reul, told the ARD broadcaster late on Saturday that authorities spent the day following a “hot lead” that led to the arrest.

Police had earlier made two arrests that were unlikely to be the perpetrator, Reul said. “The real suspect is the one that we’ve arrested just now,” he said. The individual was being questioned and evidence was seized, he said.

A woman, 56, and two men, 56 and 67, all from the region, were killed in the attack on Friday night, authorities said. A further eight people were injured, four of them seriously.

Police found at least one weapon that may have been used in the alleged assault and are analysing it for DNA traces. They said they had had no indication in the run-up to the festival that there was a security threat.

People began leaving flower bouquets and candles in tribute to the victims at the site of the attack in the centre of Solingen.

Authorities set up a website for people to send in footage or information about the alleged attack as well as a telephone hotline, and urged witnesses not to post videos directly to social media.

The alleged assailant used a knife to attack people apparently at random in a crowd of thousands gathered for a festival at the central square in Solingen on Friday night. The frenzied assault, which happened at a festival of diversity during celebrations to mark the city’s 650th anniversary, lasted only minutes, witnesses said.

Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who has been under pressure to tackle a rise in knife violence in cities, said on Saturday that he was “shocked” by the “terrible event” and stood with the terrorised city in mourning the victims.

“I wish the injured a speedy recovery,” he said in a post on X. “The perpetrator must be caught quickly and punished to the full extent of the law.”

The festival was supposed to run through to Sunday, drawing up to 25,000 people each day with a programme including live bands, cabaret acts, acrobats and entertainment for children. The rest of the festival has been cancelled, as were weekend festivities in nearby towns.

A large crowd had gathered around a stage with live music on the Fronhof market square in the city centre. Most of those injured were believed to have been attacked directly in front of the stage, the daily newspaper Bild reported, adding that the suspect appeared to target the throats of his victims.

The German DJ Topic, who is from Solingen, said in a post on Instagram he was performing on the stage when security personnel approached him and informed him of the attack.

He was asked to continue his set “to avoid causing a mass panic”, he said. “So I kept playing even though it was incredibly hard.” He said he was told to stop 10-15 minutes later, and “since the attacker was still on the run, we hid in a nearby store while police helicopters circled above us”, he wrote.

“I still can’t believe it … this was supposed to be a free festival for everyone. Really close friends of mine were there with their small kids,” he said in a video recorded in his childhood bedroom. “What’s happening to this world … my thoughts are with all the victims.”

Germany has experienced a series of knife attacks over the past 12 months, with the country’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, pledging earlier this month to crack down on knife crime with a reformed weapons law.

THE GUARDIAN
 
There was an attack on a synagogue in France too yesterday.

Europe is unsafe and an extremist hotbed.
 
Hitman said:
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lol.

Why is it that some individuals within the Hindutva and atheist Hindutva ideologies seem unable to grasp certain perspectives?

Have you ever personally encountered someone who condones the killing of innocents?

If that video is indeed authentic, I suspect that many within the Hindutva community might have reacted similarly if Hindus were to offer refuge to Polish migrants escaping the Nazis, only to later take over their homes under the belief that they were ‘the chosen ones.

Would you have turned the other cheek?
 
HalBass9 said:
lol.

Why is it that some individuals within the Hindutva and atheist Hindutva ideologies seem unable to grasp certain perspectives?

Have you ever personally encountered someone who condones the killing of innocents?

If that video is indeed authentic, I suspect that many within the Hindutva community might have reacted similarly if Hindus were to offer refuge to Polish migrants escaping the Nazis, only to later take over their homes under the belief that they were ‘the chosen ones.

Would you have turned the other cheek?
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Here's another piece of cake from your own country. Try justifying this.

 
Hitman said:
Here's another piece of cake from your own country. Try justifying this.

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Why would I justify something when I fundamentally disagree with that ideology?

I understand that to support your stance on the 'chosen people' committing genocide and ethnic cleansing, you need to create some sort of boogeyman.
 
HalBass9 said:
Why would I justify something when I fundamentally disagree with that ideology?

I understand that to support your stance on the 'chosen people' committing genocide and ethnic cleansing, you need to create some sort of boogeyman.
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You said that as a Muslim, you have yet to encounter anyone who supports killing in the name of Islam. I provided clear evidence disapproving your claim and that too from your own country.
 
So called Islamic State do more damage to Islam than anyone else.

Most people have now been able to put 2 + 2 together as to their true motivations.
 
HalBass9 said:
If that video is indeed authentic, I suspect that many within the Hindutva community might have reacted similarly if Hindus were to offer refuge to Polish migrants escaping the Nazis, only to later take over their homes under the belief that they were ‘the chosen ones.

Would you have turned the other cheek?
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This is essentially a subtle justification of 9/11 you've just typed out.
 
Germany resumes Afghan deportations after mass stabbing

Germany says it has carried out its first deportation of convicted Afghan offenders since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan three years ago.

The flight came a week after three people were fatally stabbed at a street festival in the western town of Solingen.

The killings shocked Germany and sparked an intense debate over asylum rules when it emerged the main suspect was a 26-year-old Syrian refugee facing deportation. An Afghan man was detained after another deadly attack in May.

The government in Berlin has already announced a series of measures ahead of elections on Sunday in eastern Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is riding high in the polls.

Asylum seekers facing deportation are to lose benefits and carrying knives will be banned at most public events and on public transport, ministers say.

Sunday's votes in Thuringia and Saxony could end in humiliation for the three parties running the federal government as they are all running below 10% in the polls.

In Thuringia, the AfD are being tipped to come first, ahead of the conservative CDU, while in Saxony, opinion polls put the two parties neck and neck.

The anti-immigration party has little chance of coming to power in either state as no other group is prepared to help the AfD form a majority.

Friday's chartered flight from Leipzig shortly before 07:00 (05:00 GMT) was carrying 28 Afghan men on board a Boeing 787 to Kabul, German reports said.

"These were Afghan nationals, all of whom were convicted offenders who had no right to remain in Germany and against whom deportation orders had been issued," said government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit.

Germany halted deportations in 2021 as the Taliban swept back to power in Afghanistan and the security situation deteriorated.

Although Germany has no diplomatic relations with the Taliban government, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the deportation of Afghans and Syrians would be allowed after the knife attack in Mannheim last May in which a police officer was killed. A 25-year-old Afghan man was arrested.

Last Friday's attack in Solingen, in which three people died and eight others were wounded, has caused outrage in Germany.

Issa Al H, 26, is being investigated for murder and links to militant group Islamic State (IS).

The Syrian should have been deported to Bulgaria last year but German reports suggest that the attempt failed because officials had failed to find him.

During a visit to Solingen this week, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the government would do all it could to ensure "those who cannot and must not stay here in Germany are repatriated and deported".

Ministers from the three ruling parties - the Social Democrats, Greens and Liberal FDP - announced what they said were far-reaching measures in response to the attack.

Knives are to be banned at most public events including markets and sport as well as on public transport, and there will be a blanket ban on flick knives.

Foreigners ordered to leave the country will have to be deported more quickly and efficiently, they say. Anyone facing a jail term for knife crime would face fast deportation.

A task force for the prevention of Islamism is being proposed and biometric facial recognition will be used to help identify suspects. IS said it was behind the Solingen attack and a day afterwards released a video purportedly showing the suspect in a mask.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said asylum seekers who had already registered in another European Union country would lose their rights to welfare benefits.

Ms Faeser insisted that nobody would be left hungry or sleeping on the streets, as the other EU country would be responsible for paying their benefits.

The suspect in custody in the western city of Düsseldorf had sought asylum in Germany but he was turned down because he had first entered the EU in Bulgaria.

Under the EU's Dublin Regulation, an application for asylum has to be made in the country of arrival.

The leader of the CDU, Friedrich Merz, who met the chancellor this week, had called for a halt on allowing refugees from Afghanistan and Syria to enter Germany, but that was rejected by Mr Scholz.

All the planned measures will have to go before parliament before they come into force.

BBC
 
Champ_Pal said:
Why do you think these kind of incidents are done by people who claim to be Muslims?
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Oh, you want to go there? Why?

If you're set on having this conversation, you should consider whether you have the depth of understanding required. Engaging in such a discussion means putting your biases aside and truly grasping the intricacies of geopolitics.

But frankly, I doubt you're ready for that when you argue that people shouldn't protest against their government just because they took an oath. Are you really suggesting that their loyalty is in question simply because they choose to exercise their right to dissent?

You will have to try better.
 
HalBass9 said:
Oh, you want to go there? Why?

If you're set on having this conversation, you should consider whether you have the depth of understanding required. Engaging in such a discussion means putting your biases aside and truly grasping the intricacies of geopolitics.

But frankly, I doubt you're ready for that when you argue that people shouldn't protest against their government just because they took an oath. Are you really suggesting that their loyalty is in question simply because they choose to exercise their right to dissent?

You will have to try better.
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I am sure you have all the required knowledge to tell us why it happens.

Never said you cannot protest against Government because of Oath. You should be ready to fight for the newly adopted country in case(slim to never) of war. It looks like Oath means nothing to some. Its just a facade.

You are very triggered as usual.
 
Champ_Pal said:
I am sure you have all the required knowledge to tell us why it happens.

Never said you cannot protest against Government because of Oath. You should be ready to fight for the newly adopted country in case(slim to never) of war. It looks like Oath means nothing to some. Its just a facade.

You are very triggered as usual.
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An oath carries with it constitutional rights. It’s not some hollow gesture where you simply raise your hand and fall in line because Uncle Sam said so.
 
HalBass9 said:
An oath carries with it constitutional rights. It’s not some hollow gesture where you simply raise your hand and fall in line because Uncle Sam said so.
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I don’t know which country you reside in. If you are US citizen you lied on your oath then.
 
Champ_Pal said:
I don’t know which country you reside in. If you are US citizen you lied on your oath then.
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LOl, read up the constitution.

Just do not read up the part where it say pick up the gun and fight because uncles Sam said so.
 
Woman arrested after six hurt in knife attack on bus in Germany

A 32-year-old woman has been arrested after six people were hurt in a knife attack on a bus headed to a festival in western Germany. Authorities said there was no evidence of a political or religious motive.

Three of those attacked are in life-threatening condition, police said on Friday evening.

The knife attack took place in Siegen, east of Cologne. The bus was on its way to a festival in the town and at least another 40 people were on board when the attack took place at about 7.40pm.

Police and prosecutors said the six people wounded were aged between 16 and 30 and all were from the region. By Saturday morning, three of them had left the hospital after outpatient treatment.

Local authorities planned to go ahead with the festival.

The stabbing in Siegen happened a week after a knife attack in Solingen, a city in the same state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria who had avoided being deported is accused of killing three people and wounding another eight.

The Solingen attack prompted the governing coalition to draw up plans to tighten knife laws and make deportations easier.

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Stewie said:
Must be similar to the copy of Hindu scripture that recommends killing people for eating cow. Both reprehensible acts (not the cow eating part)
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show me where a God ordained killing of people who eat meet in Hindu Scriptures.

I can show you how the Muslims texts says to kill people explicitly for being little different ordained by non other than the man himself and revealed by Almighty.
 
How shameless Islamists have to be. No religious fanatics in the world expect for Islamic faith goes around killing people with knife and are cause of hundreds of terrorists attacks around the globe. Delusion is solace I guess.
 
IndoorCricket said:
show me where a God ordained killing of people who eat meet in Hindu Scriptures.

I can show you how the Muslims texts says to kill people explicitly for being little different ordained by non other than the man himself and revealed by Almighty.
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You show me where it says so and I’ll give you the context for it.

What is happening in India right now is not proper hindu religiousness then? They are killing people for eating beef or even praying out in the open. Are you saying this does not happen?
 
Germany to tighten border controls after stabbing

Germany is set to expand border checks following a knife attack which left three people dead in the town of Solingen in August.

The government has come under pressure to take a harder line on immigration since the stabbing, in which the suspect is a Syrian national who was facing deportation after a failed asylum bid.

The attack has been claimed by the Islamic State group.

The new controls - which will be introduced on 16 September and initially last six months - were announced days after the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) made big gains in local elections.

German Interior Minster Nancy Faeser insisted the government was "taking a hard line" against irregular migration, and said the checks would reduce Islamist extremism and cross-border crime.

"We are doing everything in our power to protect the people of our country against these threats," she added.

Germany already has controls at its eastern and southern borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Austria, primarily spot checks on roads and in trains. Similar measures will be introduced at all border points.

However, critics said the move is more about politics than security.

Germany's mainstream parties were thrown into turmoil by the AfD's performance in regional elections in the east, which saw a far-right party top a poll for the first time since the Nazi era.

The governing SPD and other mainstream parties appear to have viewed the results as a message from voters to take a tougher stance on immigration and borders.

Successive governments in Berlin have allowed relatively large numbers of asylum seekers to settle in the country in recent years.

Germany took in more than one million people mostly fleeing war in countries such as Syria during the 2015-2016 migrant crisis, and has received 1.2 million Ukrainians since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

However, with polls indicating the AfD could perform strongly in a regional election in Brandenburg on 22 September, parties on both the centre-left and centre-right are coming up with proposals that would have been unthinkable until recently.

The CDU - the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel - has proposed turning all asylum seekers back at the border, even those who are eligible, on the basis they have travelled through other safe EU countries.

Gerhard Karner, Austria's interior minister, told Bild newspaper on Monday that his country would not take in any migrants rejected by Germany.

"There's no room for manoeuvre there," he said.

Since the Solingen stabbing, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government has announced a raft of measures on migration.

They include changing the rules so asylum seekers facing deportation will lose benefits, and resuming the deportation of convicted Afghan criminals to their home country for the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

BBC
 
Europe, keep fighting.

Hindus support you in what you are doing to protect your culture and clean countries from these people.
 

Toddler and man fatally stabbed in German park - Afghan man held​

A two-year-old boy and a man aged 41 have been killed in a stabbing in a German park.

Police confirmed that a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following the attack in Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. German reports suggested he had a history of mental health issues.

Two others were taken to hospital with serious injuries and the public park was cordoned off by officers.

Markus Söder, the Bavarian state premier, called the attack a "cowardly and despicable act". It is the latest fatal knife attack in Germany in recent months, and comes weeks before a federal election on 23 February.

Police said their investigation into the stabbing was ongoing, but that the attack had taken place at about 11:45 (10:45 GMT) at Schöntal Park in Aschaffenburg, about 22 miles (36 kilometres) south-east of Frankfurt.

The attack involved a kindergarten group according to the Spiegel website, which said other children were among those hurt.

Söder described the man killed as "a helper who paid for his civil courage with his own life".

The suspect was arrested close to the scene after officers were called at around 11:45 local time (10:45 GMT). Officers said a second person was initially detained at the scene but was now being treated as a witness.

Police said there was no danger to the public.

Markus Söder said it was a terrible day and called for a pause: "We mourn the loss of a small, innocent child."

Police said they were investigating a motive and the background to the attack remained unclear. The suspect was said to have been staying in accommodation for asylum seekers.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was on a visit to France, condemned an "unbelievable act of terror". He posted on social media that he was tired of seeing "such acts of violence every few weeks" and urged authorities to find out why the suspect was still in Germany.

The German government has come under increasing pressure to take a harder line on immigration after a number of fatal attacks, and with federal elections due on 23 February, the anti-immigration, far-right AfD is second in the polls.

Five people were killed when a man rammed his car into a crowd at Magdeburg's Christmas market in December. A Saudi doctor has been charged with the attack.

In August, three people were fatally stabbed in the town of Solingen. The suspect was a Syrian national facing deportation after a failed asylum.

That attack led to the German government expanding border checks and tightening controls on knives, and fuelled an intense debate over asylum rules that has continued in the run up to next month's election.

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) currently lead the polls and Olaf Scholz's centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP) are behind in third place.

The election was called after Scholz's three-party coalition collapsed in November.

Source: BBC
 
Man seriously injured in stabbing at Berlin Holocaust memorial

A man has been seriously injured in a knife attack near Berlin's Holocaust memorial.

The incident took place at around 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT), police said on X, adding that investigations into what happened "are ongoing".

Images showed emergency vehicles and armed police lined along one side of the memorial site. Officers cordoned off the site and were searching the area.

The victim - a 30-year-old Spanish tourist - has been transported to hospital with wounds not thought to be life threatening.

Police have arrested a male suspect. It is not clear whether the attacker was known to the victim.

They also said they did not know what the weapon was.

Many officers have been deployed to the area in the aftermath, with a police statement on X saying there are also rescue workers on site "caring for several people who witnessed the events".

The attack appears to have taken place on the northern side of the memorial - opposite which sits the US Embassy.

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which covers 19,000 sq metres, is described as being Germany's central Holocaust memorial.

Hours after the attack in the German capital, Swedish police said they had apprehended three men near the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, on suspicion of preparing to commit violent crime.

"We are unable to comment on the potential motive," police spokesperson Susanna Rinaldo told the Reuters news agency.

There has been no suggestion that the attack in Berlin and arrests in Stockholm are linked.

The stabbing comes just days before federal elections are held in Germany.

BBC
 
hassan918 said:

Toddler and man fatally stabbed in German park - Afghan man held​

A two-year-old boy and a man aged 41 have been killed in a stabbing in a German park.

Police confirmed that a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following the attack in Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. German reports suggested he had a history of mental health issues.

Two others were taken to hospital with serious injuries and the public park was cordoned off by officers.

Markus Söder, the Bavarian state premier, called the attack a "cowardly and despicable act". It is the latest fatal knife attack in Germany in recent months, and comes weeks before a federal election on 23 February.

Police said their investigation into the stabbing was ongoing, but that the attack had taken place at about 11:45 (10:45 GMT) at Schöntal Park in Aschaffenburg, about 22 miles (36 kilometres) south-east of Frankfurt.

The attack involved a kindergarten group according to the Spiegel website, which said other children were among those hurt.

Söder described the man killed as "a helper who paid for his civil courage with his own life".

The suspect was arrested close to the scene after officers were called at around 11:45 local time (10:45 GMT). Officers said a second person was initially detained at the scene but was now being treated as a witness.

Police said there was no danger to the public.

Markus Söder said it was a terrible day and called for a pause: "We mourn the loss of a small, innocent child."

Police said they were investigating a motive and the background to the attack remained unclear. The suspect was said to have been staying in accommodation for asylum seekers.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was on a visit to France, condemned an "unbelievable act of terror". He posted on social media that he was tired of seeing "such acts of violence every few weeks" and urged authorities to find out why the suspect was still in Germany.

The German government has come under increasing pressure to take a harder line on immigration after a number of fatal attacks, and with federal elections due on 23 February, the anti-immigration, far-right AfD is second in the polls.

Five people were killed when a man rammed his car into a crowd at Magdeburg's Christmas market in December. A Saudi doctor has been charged with the attack.

In August, three people were fatally stabbed in the town of Solingen. The suspect was a Syrian national facing deportation after a failed asylum.

That attack led to the German government expanding border checks and tightening controls on knives, and fuelled an intense debate over asylum rules that has continued in the run up to next month's election.

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) currently lead the polls and Olaf Scholz's centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP) are behind in third place.

The election was called after Scholz's three-party coalition collapsed in November.

Source: BBC
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Peaceful community at it again?
 

At least one dead, several injured as car rams into crowd in Germany’s Mannheim​


Police spokesperson Stefan Wilhelm said that one person was killed and “several” others were injured when a driver drove a black SUV into a group of people in Paradeplatz, a pedestrianized street in downtown Mannheim

“We can confirm that one perpetrator was arrested,” he said. “We can’t yet give information on whether there were further perpetrators.”

Paradeplatz, a major square in the downtown area, lies at the end of a pedestrianized street in Mannheim, which has a population of 326,000 and lies 85 kilometres south of Frankfurt.

Police are appealing to the public to avoid the area.

The incident occurred as crowds gathered in cities across western Germany’s Rhineland for parades to mark the carnival season.

Security has been a key concern in Germany following a string of violent attacks in recent weeks, including deadly car rammings in Magdeburg in December and in Munich last month, as well as a stabbing in Mannheim in May 2024.

Police are on high alert for this year’s carnival parades after social media accounts connected to the Islamic State (IS) group called for attacks on the events in Cologne and Nuremberg.

Source: France 24
 
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