SEK storms asylum home! Suspect arrested
Solingen (NRW) – Elite police officers from the special operations command (SEK) stormed a refugee shelter following the terrorist attack in Solingen. A suspect was arrested.
The asylum accommodation is located just 300 meters from the Fronhof, the site of the attack. And 150 meters from the place where investigators found the suspected murder weapon in the afternoon – the knife with which the attacker killed three people and seriously injured eight on Friday evening.
The “Festival of Diversity” became a day of tears
Solingen (NRW) – It was supposed to be a lively anniversary celebration under the motto “Festival of Diversity”. But at around 9:40 p.m. the cheers in front of the stage at Fronhof died down and instead screams and panic filled the city center. At least one armed man stabbed visitors to the 650th anniversary of Solingen (NRW) with a knife, killing three people and injuring eight.
The day after the atrocity, countless questions remain unanswered, and witnesses and residents of the city are in shock. Two men (56 and 67 years old) and a woman (56) are dead. A youth (15) is in police custody. It is unclear whether he is the perpetrator and whether he had accomplices.
Islamic State claims responsibility for German festival ‘terror attack’
The Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on festival goers in the German city of Solingen, in which a knifeman killed three people and wounded eight others in a stabbing rampage.
Authorities were last night still hunting for the suspect, who deliberately cut at his victims’ throats according to police.
In a statement on its official mouthpiece Amaq, IS said the attack targeted a gathering of Christians for “the cause of Palestinians and Muslims”.
