After the knife attack on a train, Brokstedt in Schleswig-Holstein is in shock. Meanwhile, there is information about the perpetrator, now his lawyer speaks up.
Brokstedt – January 25, shortly before 3 p.m., a regional train from Kiel on its way to Hamburg, next stop: Brokstedt in the district of Steinburg. A fellow traveler moves in suddenly Messer, apparently attacking passengers at random. Five people are injured and two passengers are killed. But who is the culprit? Little by little, information is leaking out, and now the man’s lawyer has spoken out.
Man attacks fellow travelers with knife: Perpetrators fled from Hamas to Germany
Itzehoe police announced on the evening of January 25 that the attacker was a 33-year-old. He is from Palestine, but is currently stateless. According to his lawyer Björn Seelbach, the man had fled the terrorist organization Hamas after living with his family in the Gaza Strip until 2014; The Hamas quoted him as saying mirror Court documents added “serious abuse” in the form of “burns and cuts.”
The 33-year-old is now in police custody, but initially had to be taken to a hospital for minor injuries. About the The man wants to remain silent about the killing of the two train passengers and the injuries he inflicted on other passengers, some of them serious, reported his defender Björn Seelbach. The lawyer, who should be aware that the prospects of an acquittal are negligible, instead criticizes the judiciary. He “was surprised that [s]a client was released from custody so suddenly,” Seelbach complained mirror according to. The lack of support becomes the focus of his argument. In his view, “it would have been better if you had him [den Täter, Anm. d. Red.] to prepare for dismissal. The background is: just six days before the crime in Brokstedt, the 33-year-old was still in prison.
Knife attacker von Brokstedt just got out of prison – lawyer criticizes the judiciary
In December 2014, the man traveled to Germany a, lived in Euskirchen until 2020, worked as a parcel carrier. He was already convicted of shoplifting in 2015, but received in 2016 Protection status in the asylum procedure. Other crimes followed, and the man on record moved to Kiel in 2021. The authorities became aware of him and initiated proceedings to withdraw his protection status. On January 18, 2022, the 33-year-old stabbed a man in the arm, hand and neck with a knife during an argument outside a homeless shelter. The judiciary decided on imprisonment and denied a favorable social prognosis; it is assumed that there is a 50 percent risk of reoffending.
The man, who had reported alcohol and drug consumption at the trial, appealed against the sentence – the imprisonment was therefore not final and therefore not enforceable. The 33-year-old remained in custody, where there were probably renewed arguments with fellow inmates and law enforcement officials. On January 19, 2023, the stay in custody made up a large part of the originally imposed prison sentence – the man was released after a psychiatric evaluation, which was unremarkable. On January 25, 2023, he went to Kiel and wanted to apply for a “residence card”, according to the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior.