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Duisburg knife attacker is said to have announced murder
The police cordoned off everything in a small parking lot after the knife attack. photo
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New findings in the case of the murder of two elementary school children in Duisburg: The suspected knife attacker is said to have announced a murder weeks before. He has already been investigated.
The alleged knife attacker, who is said to have stabbed two elementary school children in Duisburg, is said to have previously spoken in a chat announced murder. A witness reported this to the police in Bavaria in January. This emerges from a report from the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Justice to the state parliament’s legal committee.
Measures had already been considered and taken against the 21-year-old, and a search warrant was also issued, but was not implemented before the crime on February 28th. It is being investigated whether there were delays due to an incorrectly entered file number and documents not being provided. A supervisory review has been initiated.
Chat message with murder weapon photo
A witness reported to the police in Straubing in Bavaria on January 8th who indicated that the 21-year-old had announced a murder to him in a private chat for September 2024. The suspected murder weapons that were seized after the crime in Duisburg could already be seen in a picture sent.
It has also become apparent that the 21-year-old German-Bulgarian glorifies serial killers. The police in Bavaria identified him as the suspected author of the messages and sent the files to the responsible public prosecutor’s office in Bavaria on January 19th. From there they were forwarded to the Duisburg public prosecutor’s office on February 15th. There was no mention of any particular urgency in the matter.
Nevertheless, proceedings for disturbing the public peace by threatening criminal offenses were initiated against the 21-year-old on February 20th. After the knife attack on the nine and ten year old elementary school children in Duisburg, an arrest warrant was issued against the suspected attacker for two counts of attempted murder. Two knives and a hammer were seized as possible murder weapons.
According to the investigation, the knife attacker was disturbed by a passerby and was finally stopped and disarmed by his own father. The two children whose heads he stabbed had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the report said. They could have left the hospital by now.
The two victims are a nine-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy. They were probably random victims. Before the arrest, the son is said to have told his father that there was information on his cell phone that would explain the crime.