BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have uncovered evidence of an Islamic extremist motive in last week’s knife attack in the southwestern city of Mannheim in which a police officer was fatally injured. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann wrote on the social media platform X late Monday that “there are now clear indications of an […]
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was shocked at the death of a police officer who succumbed to his injuries after being stabbed in Mannheim two days ago. “I am deeply shocked by the death of the police officer who courageously intervened in Mannheim to protect human life,” he said, expressing his condolences to the […]
A German police officer has died of injuries suffered during a knife attack that left five other people injured in the central square of Mannheim, officials said on Sunday. The officer, 29, was stabbed several times in the head and neck by a 25-year-old immigrant from Afghanistan and underwent emergency surgery after the attack on […]
A German police officer has died two days after being stabbed at an anti-Islam gathering in the western German city of Mannheim, authorities said Sunday, as police responded to demonstrations held in the wake of the attack. The public prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe, the Mannheim police headquarters and the criminal investigation office in the state […]
A 25-year-old man born in Afghanistan has been remanded in custody by a German court on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a knife attack at an event organised by a group opposing “political Islam”. The six victims included a police officer who remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was stabbed while […]
A German policeman stabbed in a knife attack on the market square in Mannheim suffered life-threatening injuries and is being operated on in hospital, security sources told dpa on Friday. A knife-wielding attacker injured several people on the square in Mannheim, located in south-western Germany, before being shot by police. The attacker was wounded. Authorities […]