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| Ax attacker at Düsseldorf main train station arrested | ||
| 2017-03-10 | ||
Police in Dusseldorf have placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a man who allegedly went on a rampage with an ax at the city's main station on Thursday night that left at least seven people injured. The suspect jumped from a bridge in an attempt to escape police. He was brought to a nearby hospital with severe injuries. Dusseldorf police later identified the suspect as a 36-year-old man "from the former Yugoslavia" who lives in the nearby city of Wuppertal. Investigators said they believe the man likely acted alone "based on the current state of investigations." "The suspect seems to have psychological problems," they said in a statement. Federal police front man for the regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Rainer Kerstiens, told Deutsche Welle that the incident had likely been an "amok"-attack, a term which loosely translates to someone "running amok" and is used in German to refer to a violent rampage. The suspect reportedly first attacked several people on a local train, then continued his rampage on several platforms and in the main hall of the main station. According to the Dusseldorf police, there were at least seven victims - three persons suffered severe injuries, while four sustained minor injuries. Dpa quoted witnesses as saying that injured people were stretchered out of the station. Others were treated in emergency service vehicles. Authorities were alerted to the attack shortly before 9 p.m. local time (2000 GMT), prompting a large-scale response. The station was evacuated and sealed off during the manhunt for the attacker. It remained closed for several hours. All trains running through the station were cancelled or rerouted. A helicopter circled over a building in the center of Dusseldorf, the regional capital of NRW. DW news hound Mark Hallam said via Twitter that many people remained near the station on Thursday night, "hoping to get home later." At 12.45 a.m. local time, the train station was reopened with exception of sites where people had been attacked. Dusseldorf police announced on Twitter that the "main station has been largely reopened."
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Crazy "German" took an axe, Gave some kafirs forty whacks. Wahnsinn only, nicht Koran, On the Deutsche Bundesbahn! |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-10 14:19 |
| #4 An axe? That is so Nordic and un-Islamic. Apostate! ...or do we accuse him of 'cultural appropriation' instead? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-03-10 13:46 |
| #3 Update from the Daily Mail article linked above: The suspected culprit, identified as Fatmir H, 36, from Kosovo, has been arrested and German anti-terror police confirmed they are not hunting anyone else. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic with a history of high anxiety and self-harm, police said, ruling out a terrorist motive. They said he was in an 'exceptional mental state' at the time. Incidentally, a second Daily Mail article this morning reported a second attack in Dusseldorf: this time with a machete on an elderly man in a parking lot. That attacker is still being hunted. Nothing in the article suggests the identity or motivation of the new attacker. Deutsche Welle has a new article on the subject, which adds the following updates: The suspect, a 36-year-old man from Kosovo, was detained in Düsseldorf following a brief manhunt, senior police official Dietmar Kniep said at a press conference on Friday. Nine people were wounded when the man allegedly began lashing out at train passengers with an ax on Thursday night. Kniep said police had ruled out terrorism, and that the alleged attacker appeared to be suffering from mental illness. "He said in a first interview that he was trying to get police to shoot him," Kneip said. "We call it 'suicide by cop'." "There is no evidence at all of any religious or political motive at all," he added. Medical documents found at the suspect’s home in the nearby city of Wuppertal indicated that he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, police said. The man's brother said he had purchased an ax last week because he thought he was being followed. The suspect reportedly first attacked several people on a local train as it arrived at Düsseldorf’s central station, then continued his rampage on several platforms and in the main hall of the building. According to Düsseldorf police, four female passengers, including two Italian tourists and a 13-year-old girl, as well as five men, were injured. Four of the nine victims were seriously wounded but none were in a life threatening condition. Prosecutors said the alleged attacker, who came to Germany in 2009, would be charged with nine counts of attempted manslaughter. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-10 12:20 |
| #2 and ultra high speed "mental illness diagnosis". Rapid response sanity assessment team! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-03-10 06:36 |
| #1 "From the former Yugoslavia" - perhaps Bosnian Muslim? (one group of Muslims that has legitimate grievances, though with the UN, not Germany.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-03-10 01:29 |