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Knife attack by Brokstedt: the accused denies the act
The accused Ibrahim A. is brought to his place in the courtroom by judicial officers. photo
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A young couple dies in a knife attack on a train near Brokstedt, the act causes horror. Now the process begins. “I just want to say that I’m innocent,” says the accused.
The trial of the deadly knife attack on a regional train in Schleswig-Holstein attracted a great deal of public interest Brokstedt started.
The Palestinian Ibrahim A. has to answer before the Itzehoe district court for two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder. The public prosecutor accuses the 34-year-old of stabbing a 17-year-old and her boyfriend, who is two years older, on January 25 near Brokstedt train station. Two other women and two men suffered serious injuries.
Ibrahim A. denies the knife attack: “I just want to say that I’m innocent,” he said. Although he admitted to having been on the train, he denied having committed the knife attack.
Out of frustration at an unsuccessful appointment with the authorities
Public prosecutor Janina Seyfert had previously read out the indictment and described in detail the course of the bloody crime on January 25, in which two people died and four others were seriously injured. Accordingly, Ibrahim A. first stabbed a 17-year-old teenager out of frustration at an unsuccessful appointment with the authorities in Kiel. She died after 26 knife wounds, in which, among other things, the femoral artery was severed. The accused is said to have stabbed the 19-year-old friend of the youngsters twelve times. Among other things, he suffered a fatal stab in the heart.
In the further course of the crime, Ibrahim A. is said to have attacked and seriously injured four other passengers in different carriages of the train. Finally, a man managed to hit the perpetrator with a briefcase and a laptop bag in such a way that he lost the knife and gave up surrounded by witnesses. Seyfert accused the accused of two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder for base motives and insidiousness.
Ibrahim A. compared himself to Anis Amri
The accused is currently in custody. There he was noticed several times for aggressive behavior and is considered a difficult prisoner.
The man had been released from custody just a few days before the fatal knife attack, which he had served in Hamburg for another crime. During that time, he had seen 16 times with a psychiatrist about mental health issues.
The Ibrahim A. case also concerned several state parliaments because there had been deficiencies in the exchange of important information between authorities in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia, where Ibrahim A. lived and also committed crimes. A few months before his release from Hamburg prison, the alleged murderer is said to have compared himself to the assassin from Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, Anis Amri.