“Islamophobia”

German prosecutors on Thursday charged the suspect behind a fatal knife attack at a local festival in the western German city of Solingen.

The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Issa Al H., was charged with three counts of murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and membership in the “Islamic State” (IS) terror group.

The Solingen knife attack and a series of similar incidents shook Germany and fueled the heated political debate about migration and deportation in the months leading up to last week’s federal election.

Brahim Aouissaoui, an illegal Tunisian immigrant who travelled by boat via Lampedusa to attack France, ‘the land of infidels and dogs’.

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As millions of Germans get ready to celebrate the annual pre-Lent carnival season, police have increased security after a spate of deadly attacks and have warned the public not to dress up as police officers or carry replica guns as part of their costumes.

The city of Cologne, one of the main bastions of the Karneval traditions, has said it will deploy all available officers on the streets starting on Thursday, Weiberfastnacht or Old Wives’ Day, when the week-long season starts in earnest. There are street parties and women are allowed to cut off men’s ties and storm town halls with impunity.

‘Let’s be clear, we don’t have blasphemy laws in the UK.’ So said Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business secretary and premier solicitor impersonator, to the BBC earlier this week. Reynolds was pushing back against US vice-president JD Vance, who gave European leaders a very public dressing down at the Munich Security Conference last week for censoring their voters, and Britain for criminalising its Christians. Of course, Reynolds’s denial was about as trustworthy as his CV.

Seven months after their daughters were injured in the attack, a family speaks for the first time about the day that shattered their world

It has been seven months since the attack and seven months since the parents last shared a bed. They take it in turns to lie next to each of their traumatised daughters, alternating every night. They have swapped out the singles in the girls’ shared bedroom for a king-size bed, in the hope of snatching a few hours of rest themselves.

Since July 29 sleep, however fitful, has become vanishingly rare. Before bed, the girls insist on checking again and again that every door in the house has been locked. They pore over doorbell video, looking for shapes in the dark.

Berlin – Wassim al M. was a recognized refugee who allegedly fled the Assad regime in Syria at the age of 17 – on Friday he was arrested with blood on his hands after allegedly stabbing a tourist in the middle of Berlin.

During his interrogation, the now 19-year-old Syrian stated that he wanted to kill people out of hatred of Jews. This decision had been brewing in him for several weeks. Investigators found a Koran, a prayer rug and the suspected murder weapon, a hunting knife, in the perpetrator’s backpack. He approached his victim from behind and tried to cut the Spaniard’s throat.