After the attack on several passers-by at Ansbach train station with two injured, the police determined the identity of the attacker. Accordingly, it is a 30-year-old man. The alleged attacker was shot by the police on Thursday evening and succumbed to his injuries shortly thereafter.
According to the police, the 30-year-old attacked several passers-by with knives around 6 p.m. As far as is known, two people were injured. According to the police, it is currently “cannot be ruled out” that the man attacked passers-by indiscriminately. At the scene of the crime, the investigators secured two household knives from the suspect, which are very likely to be the murder weapons, as a spokesman for the Central Franconia police headquarters said on Friday morning.
According to uninvolved witnesses, the 30-year-old is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”) during his attacks. This does not necessarily indicate an Islamist-terrorist background to the attacks. Possible backgrounds for the fact would be examined intensively. The investigations are being conducted by the criminal police, the Ansbach public prosecutor’s office and the State Criminal Police Office.
The perpetrator’s home was searched
Above all, the personal environment of the man should now be examined. The 30-year-old’s apartment has since been searched and his cell phone has been secured, a police spokesman told dpa on Friday morning. The cell phone is now being searched by criminalists for clues.
On Thursday evening, the police headquarters in Central Franconia received several emergency calls via mobile phone. Accordingly, a man near a parking garage at Ansbach train station behaved extremely aggressively and attacked several people. Other passers-by are said to have tried to stop the armed man. He is also said to have attacked the officers who had been summoned. According to the police, “the police used firearms”.
Several shots were fired from several police weapons, the spokesman said. Officials from the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office have been investigating the exact course of the argument since Thursday evening. These routinely take over the investigation when shots are fired from police guns. Officials believe the man died as a result of the police shots.
Despite immediately initiated resuscitation attempts, the 30-year-old died at the scene. The officers were unharmed. According to the police, the two pedestrians affected by the attacks – a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old – suffered minor injuries. The older one was injured by cuts, the younger one suffered other injuries as a result of the attacks. Both were treated on an outpatient basis and were able to go home on Thursday evening. According to the circumstances, they are doing well, the police spokesman said on Friday.
In order to secure tracks, the police cleared the parking lot of a drugstore and a multi-storey car park south of the station in the evening. Investigators are now looking for other witnesses who saw the attacks at the train station. You are asked to contact the police.