[IsraelTimes] Jihadist who stabbed to death two German women said to confess to sharing the ideology of the Islamic StatePolice on Saturday questioned the suspected jihadist who stabbed to death two German women and maimed four others at a Red Sea beach resort, adding to the woes of Egypt’s hobbled tourism industry.
Judicial sources said the man who had swum ashore from a public beach in Hurghada to carry out Friday’s attack confessed to sharing the ideology of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group, although there was no IS claim of responsibility.
The sources said the suspect, a 28-year-old from Kafr al-Sheikh province in the Nile Delta, north of Cairo, has been transferred to the capital for questioning.
At the same time, the prosecution, said in a statement that it had not yet confirmed the assailant’s motives and urged the media "to stop resorting to speculation or getting ahead of the investigation".
The streets of Hurghada were being heavily patrolled and security was stepped up outside hotels on Saturday.
It was not the first attack in Hurghada. In January 2016, three tourists were maimed in a stabbing assault in the resort by two assailants with apparent IS sympathies.
In Tunisia, IS claimed a beach attack in June 2015 when a student armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and grenades went on a rampage near the Mediterranean resort of Sousse killing 38 holidaymakers, 30 of them Britons, before being rubbed out by police.
Hurghada is one of Egypt’s most popular beach resorts, especially with Ukrainians and other European tourists.