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Crime scene in Dresden
Photo: Roland Halkasch
A good month after the knife attack with a fatality in Dresden, the federal prosecutor obtained an arrest warrant against the suspect.
The authority in Karlsruhe explained that the man acted out of a radical Islamist conviction.
"He wanted to wipe out the two victims as representatives of a liberal society that he had rejected as 'unbeliever'."
The warrant for arrest is for murder, attempted murder and dangerous physical harm.
The 20-year-old Syrian was arrested on October 20 and has been in custody due to an arrest warrant from the Dresden District Court.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation a day later when the evidence of an Islamist background increased.
The investigators accuse the suspect of suddenly stabbing two tourists from North Rhine-Westphalia in Dresden's old town on October 4th.
A 55-year-old man from Krefeld died shortly afterwards in the hospital.
A 53-year-old from Cologne survived seriously injured.
The perpetrator was initially able to escape undetected, the motive was unclear.
But the knife was found at the scene.
The man arrested had been known to the authorities as an Islamist for years.
The man, who has been tolerated in Germany since 2015, was released from juvenile prison just a few days before the offense.
In 2018 he was convicted, among other things, of soliciting members and supporters of a terrorist organization abroad, and in 2019 of assault and assault on law enforcement officers.
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