Baden-Wurttemberg
Interior Minister Strobl: Mannheim perpetrator was probably motivated by Islamism
Thomas Strobl, Baden-Württemberg’s Interior Minister, makes a press statement at the crime scene in Mannheim
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After the fatal knife attack on a police officer in Mannheim, there are initial indications of a possible motive of the perpetrator.
According to the authorities, the knife attack in Mannheim was presumably motivated by Islamist interests. The evidence is mounting that this was an Islamist-extremist motivated crime, said Baden-Württemberg’s Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) on Tuesday in Stuttgart.
Mannheim perpetrator could belong to larger group
There is also no evidence that the suspected perpetrator is a person who belongs to a larger group. It could be an Islamist radicalized individual perpetrator, said Strobl.
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These people are particularly dangerous because lone perpetrators do not communicate in groups and are difficult to monitor. The 25-year-old was not previously known to the police.