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Brokstedt: The attacker is said to have compared himself to Breitscheidplatz assassin Anis Amri

2023-02-06T13:56:18.764Z


He killed two people in a regional train: According to the Hamburg judicial authority, Ibrahim A. spoke of a terrorist a few months before the crime in prison - the statement apparently had no consequences.


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Memorial at the crime scene in Brokstedt

Photo: Marcus Brandt / dpa

The man who stabbed two people on a train in northern Germany appeared to identify himself as a terrorist.

This emerges from his prisoner's personal file, parts of which have been published by the Hamburg judiciary.

The 33-year-old Palestinian Ibrahim A. stabbed other passengers with a knife on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg on January 25.

Two young people died and five others were injured, some seriously.

A. is in custody on suspicion of double murder and attempted manslaughter.

The man has multiple convictions.

He had been released from custody in Hamburg just a week before the crime.

In the JVA Billwerder, Ibrahim A. is said to have previously compared himself to Anis Amri.

On December 19, 2016, Amri drove a truck into the Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz near the Berlin Memorial Church.

As a result of the attack, 13 people died.

As reported by the Hamburg judiciary, Ibrahim A. "stammered" in August 2022, according to an official.

Ibrahim A. said: "Big car, Berlin, that's the truth." On the way to the yard, Ibrahim A. asked another employee twice if he wanted to "under the tires".

When closing the courtyard door, Ibrahim A. said, according to the judiciary: "There is not just one Anis Amri, there are several, I am one too."

The statements had not been reported to the supervisory department of the Hamburg judicial authority as an extraordinary event.

According to the authorities, they found out after the fact.

The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution had not informed the Billwerder prison either.

Repeatedly "verbally aggressive"

According to the authorities, Ibrahim A. repeatedly stood out as verbally aggressive and inappropriate during his detention.

Apart from the incident on August 6, 2022, however, no statements were documented that could suggest an extremist connection.

A few days before the deadly knife attack, Ibrahim A. had been psychiatrically assessed.

The psychiatrist saw no harm to others or himself.

In the course of the deadly knife attack, the authorities in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein accused each other of failure to communicate about the alleged perpetrator (read more about it here).

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Source: spiegel

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