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Anniversary of the fatal knife attack in Brokstedt.
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Brokstedt's mayor Clemens Preine is convinced that the fatal knife attack a year ago on the regional train from Kiel to Hamburg will never be forgotten.
“The lives of two teenagers who still had so many plans, a young happiness, were wiped out by this senseless act,” he said at a memorial service in the community in the Steinburg district on Thursday.
Brokstedt - Today it is clear that a lack of coordination between authorities facilitated the crime.
Increased police presence and checks at train stations, video surveillance and a draft law to improve the return of delinquent migrants are first steps, but the effect is not yet visible.
Together with Preine and relatives, Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther, Interior Minister Sabine Sütterlin-Waack and Justice Minister Kerstin von der Decken (all CDU) laid wreaths at a recently erected memorial stone on the platform.
“Today we are all thinking of two young people whose lives were suddenly torn from their lives by a truly terrible act,” said the Prime Minister.
“We think of the people who were on the train, who were injured physically and mentally.”
A year ago, on the afternoon of January 25, 2023, a man on the regional train from Kiel to Hamburg pulled out a knife and stabbed passengers.
Two young people died and four were seriously injured.
The 34-year-old Palestinian Ibrahim A. has been standing before the Itzehoe regional court since July 2023 because of the crimes.
He has to answer for murder.
dpa