In Germany, a knife attack on a train in Bavaria leaves several injured – archyworldys

Several people were injured on Saturday (November 6) on an ICE train in Bavaria, Germany, in a knife attack in which the alleged perpetrator, a man, was arrested, local police said.

“According to initial information, several people were injured”, specified the police of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Bavaria), which was alerted around 9 a.m. of the attack, assuring that“There is[vait] now no more danger “. The high-speed ICE train, on board which there were about 300 passengers and which was traveling between Regensburg and Nuremberg at the time of the events, was immobilized at the Seubersdorf station. A large police force was deployed on the spot.

the German daily Bild reports three injured, including two seriously. None of the injured is in danger of death, a spokeswoman for the local police told Agence France-Presse. According to the newspaper, the perpetrator is a 27-year-old man who manifested psychological disorders in the train.

The mobile still not determined

“This knife attack is horrible”, reacted the Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer. In a statement on Twitter, he added:

“I would like to thank everyone, especially the police and the train staff, for their courageous action, which made it possible to avoid even worse (…) The motive for the crime is still not clear and will now be determined . “

These facts occur in a tense context in Germany, faced in recent years with a double threat of terrorism, jihadist and right-wing extremist.

The German authorities are particularly on the alert, especially since a ram truck attack claimed by the Islamic State group which had made twelve dead in December 2016 in Berlin.

Since 2000, the German authorities have foiled 23 such attack attempts, the Minister of the Interior reported twenty years after September 11, 2001. “Germany and Western Europe are still in the sights of radical Islamists”, he had alerted. Since 2013, the number of Islamists considered dangerous in Germany has increased fivefold to currently stand at 615, according to the Interior Ministry.