Two people died in Wolmirstedt on Friday evening. According to current information, a 27-year-old first stabbed a man to death in a prefabricated housing area and then attacked three people at a private European Championship party. An attack on police officers was repelled by several shots. They fatally hit him.
In Wolmirstedt On Friday evening, police shot dead a 27-year-old Afghan in the Börde district. As police in Stendal announced on Saturday afternoon, he had previously attacked police officers with a knife. Two officers then fired shots.
Dem The attack was preceded by an attack by the young man on a private European Championship party in a residential area. Three people aged 50, 56 and 75 were injured with a knife, two of them seriously, according to reports. As the police told MDR this morning, they are being treated in hospital.
23-year-old Afghan stabbed to death
After According to the police’s findings so far, the 27-year-old had previously injured a 23-year-old fellow countryman with a knife in a prefab housing estate several hundred meters away, so badly that the man died that evening. The background to this is still unclear.
In a single-family housing development in the northwest of Wolmirstedt, a private European Championship party was attacked.
The young man then wandered aimlessly through Wolmirstedt and eventually entered private property. There, the attack on the partygoers took place shortly after kick-off. of the European Championship opening matchThe perpetrator then fled and encountered the officers.
The suspected perpetrator died a short time later in hospital from his gunshot wounds. Initially it was reported that the man had died at the scene.
Police: No religiously motivated crime
According to the police, there is currently no evidence of a religiously motivated crime. The Magdeburg public prosecutor’s office has begun investigations, it said. The police in Stendal are also investigating the use of firearms. The police will provide information on possible further findings on Sunday.
Saxony-Anhalt’s Interior Ministry announced that police presence in the state had been increased. They did not want to give any details. The police station in Stendal is receiving all the help it needs to clarify the events.
dpa, MDR (Ingvar Jensen, Katrein Wolf, André Plaul)