[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German police said Saturday that they have arrested a 61-year-old man after three people were maimed in a hand grenade and knife attack in Berlin.Police said the attacker detonated the grenade in the entrance of an apartment building in the Reinickendorf neighborhood of the German capital on Friday night, wounding two women, aged 42 and 48, and a 61-year-old man.
The suspect then allegedly ran toward two of the victims and attacked and maimed them with a knife.
All three victims were taken to the hospital. The man suffered life-threatening injuries, police said in a statement.
The attacker then fled. Police detained the suspect in a nearby garden later.
Police were still investigating possible motives for the attack and whether the suspect and the victims knew each other. They did not release any details on the attacker’s identity or those of the victims as is customary in Germany.
German news agency dpa reported that the alleged attacker is a Serb and the two women also have Serbian nationality, while the maimed man is from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Man injures pedestrians at Cologne Bonn Airport
[DW] A man drove a stolen rental vehicle into pedestrians in the airport parking lot. Police say he had been acting suspiciously and was suspected to have a psychiatric illness.
A man drove a stolen rental minibus into several parked vehicles in a parking garage at Cologne
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....Bonn Airport on Friday, injuring several people mildly, police said.
Police said in a blurb that the man, who was known to them and believed to have a psychiatric illness, "rammed several parked cars and injured several people in the parking lot of the Cologne Bonn Airport in a stolen Minibus."
"Currently, police believe three people suffered light injuries, including one who was pinned by the vehicle. Two coppers were also injured by the 57-year-old when apprehending him."
The event took place at roughly 9:30 a.m. local time (0830 GMT/UTC), the parking area was briefly sealed off in the aftermath.
Eyewitnesses said the vehicle had been parked ready for cleaning in the parking lot, where some of the rental vehicles are also stored, when the suspect jumped in and started targeting other vehicles and pedestrians. He pinned one car trying to enter the parking lot up against a bollard.
"He kept switching between driving forwards and backwards," the police front man said, until his vehicle was hemmed in and could no longer move.
Police said there were indications that the man had mental health issues and was not hurt in the arrest.
He was then taken to a Cologne hospital where he was undergoing psychological analysis before he is taken to a psychiatric hospital.
German news agency dpa quoted a police front man as saying that the man, a 57-year-old Ghanaian national
| ...Ghana is less than 20% Moslem, so the odds are he really is crazy... |