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Brutal knife attack in the city center: Investigators have new suspicions

2020-05-13T09:27:12.551Z


There are new details on the brutal knife attack. Investigators have made a breakthrough and new suspicions.


There are new details on the brutal knife attack. Investigators have made a breakthrough and new suspicions.

  • In Klinikum Hanau * appear injured with stab wounds.
  • Shortly thereafter, the police start a search for a group of unknowns.
  • Investigator with breakthrough in knife attack in Hanau

Update from Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 10.50 a.m .:  After a brutal knife attack in Hanau , the investigators arrested two other suspects. The public prosecutor's office in Hanau and the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse announced in a joint press release on Wednesday (May 13, 2020). The two 25-year-old men were arrested in the morning in two apartments in downtown Hanau and in Maintal in the Bischofsheim district. 

According to the investigators, they are connected to the knife attack , in which four people were injured in Hanau in April , and are "urgently suspicious". They are accused of multiple homicides and attempted dangerous bodily harm. 

Hanau: knife attack - "banal occasion" causes dispute to escalate

The two men come from the environment of an already imprisoned 25-year-old, as the "Hanauer Anzeiger" reports. When the apartments were searched, the police also reported that the suspect's clothing and several knives were found to be checked for traces. Small amounts of drugs were also seized.

The public prosecutor's office and the police also commented on the trigger for the knife attack in Hanau - they have a new suspicion: According to the current state of the investigation, a dispute had developed on "Freiheitsplatz" between "26 apparently banal events" between a 26-year-old man and one of the 25-year-olds now arrested . Then the dispute escalated and other people "interfered". The 26-year-old is already in custody.

Brutal knife attack: unknowns stab passers-by - video footage provides new evidence

Updated on Saturday, 02.05.2020, 20:18:  Against two of the four people who after the knife attack in the city  of Hanau had appeared on Tuesday evening autonomously in urban hospital with some serious injuries on Saturday  arrest warrant has been issued. The two suspects are accused of attempted manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm.

The two men are a 23 year old and a 26 year old. The men are suspected of causing serious injuries to each other with knives in a parking lot on Langstrasse . Previously, the first meeting of the two suspects is said to have already taken place on Freedom Square. Both men were accompanied by other people. The bloody conflict ran through half of Hanau's city center and finally culminated in the parking lot on Langstrasse.

Hanau: Knife attack in the city center - video material provides a new trail

The urgent suspicion of the crime against the two men arose after police questionings by numerous witnesses and persons involved in the crime and by the evaluation of the video protection system and other surveillance cameras. The Hanau public prosecutor ordered the provisional arrest of the two men on Friday evening and applied for two arrest warrants from the Hanau district court on Saturday morning.

The investigative judge ordered custody for both suspects. The judge's demonstration even took place in the hospital.

Knife attack in Hanau: two suspects released

Update from Thursday, April 30th, 2020, 4:57 pm: After the knife attacks on Tuesday evening ( April 28th, 2020  ) in the city center of Hanau with four injuries, there is a turning point in the investigation: the two suspects arrested on Wednesday (April 29th, 2020) aged 23 and 29 were released from police custody on Thursday. In a statement from the public prosecutor's office, it was said that “there is currently no urgent suspicion of possible knife attacks on the suspects”. 

However, the two men are still suspected of being involved in the conflict in the middle of Hanau. When asked, a police spokesman said that the temporary release had occurred because it was currently not possible to prove that the men attacked other people with knives or other objects.

Apart from that, it was said that further suspects had been identified. The police did not want to provide information on the number of people found or details of the new suspects. This is another subject of the investigation. The criminal police have stated that they have set up a five-person working group and are still asking witnesses who have observed the facts of the crime between Freiheitsplatz and the Hanau Clinic to register at 06181 100-123.

Brutal knife attack in Hanau: Mayor Kaminsy comments

Update from Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 5:14 p.m .: Hanaus Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) commented on the knife attacks  in the city ​​center of Hanau : “It has undeniably been a terrible act and it affects our city in an already difficult time. "

Hanau: knife attack and helicopter use evoke bad memories

He expressed understanding that the police operation as a result of the knife attacks, particularly the helicopter in the one above the city, would have reminded many of the Hanau attack of February 19 of many people. Images of the operation quickly spread on social media, combined with questions to the police about what was happening in the city.

Population in #Hanau is concerned because one / more #helicopters have been circling / circling the city for hours ... @Polizei_soh

- Murat KARAHAN (@RAKarahan) April 28, 2020

"I can understand that there are people who are deeply disturbed by the sounds of the racist terrorist murders of February 19," Hanaus Lord Mayor Kaminsky also emphasized with regard to the knife attacks on Tuesday evening, "that it is terrible events of February 19 would not do justice if every crime in the city were put in this context ”.

Brutal knife attack in Hanau: attacks with knives and sticks

Update from Wednesday, April 29th, 2020, 3:33 pm:  For the knife attacks on Tuesday evening (April 28th, 2020 ) in Hanau with four injuries, new details of the crime are known: According to the police, passers-by were attacked by members of a group. As previously reported, two young men are in custody on suspicion of crime. 

Chief Prosecutor Dominik Mies said about the incident in the city center of Hanau: The "dynamic and shifting crime scene" is said to have occurred between Freiheitsplatz and the Hanau Clinic. In addition to knives, those involved also used striking tools such as rods, Mies explained. However, it was clear that none of the groups marched through Hanau to indiscriminately attack passersby, Mies emphasized.

Brutal knife attack in Hanau: an injured man was in mortal danger

In the meantime, one of the injured in the knife attack in Hanau was in mortal danger, as Mies reported. They were all still in Hanau Clinic for treatment on Wednesday, said Mies. 

Update from Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 12:04 p.m .:  After the knife attacks on Tuesday evening (April 28, 2020 ) in Hanau , the public prosecutor's office  currently sees no known connections to the racially motivated attack in February in Hanau. The two arrested 23 and 29 year old suspects are still in custody and are being interrogated, police said. 

But they had not yet gotten involved in the events of the Messer attack in downtown Hanau , said Chief Prosecutor Dominik Mies . It is also unclear whether the alleged perpetrators and one or more of the victims knew each other or whether it was a coincidence. A testimony had brought the investigators on the track of the two suspects. The police headquarters in South Hesse announced that Chief Prosecutor Mies would provide further information at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

The press spokesman for the public prosecutor's office #Hanau, Mr. Dominik Mies, is available to press representatives for interviews and information on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, at 3 p.m. in the foyer of the public prosecutor's office.

Please register in advance. More
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- Police Southeast Hesse (@Polizei_soh) April 29, 2020

Knife attack in Hanau: Public prosecutors see no political motive

Update from Wednesday, April 29th, 2020, 11.10am: In Hanau , the chief prosecutor Dominik Mies does not assume a political motive   after the Messer attack in the city center on Tuesday evening with four injuries: "At the moment we have no evidence that the Attacks have a political or xenophobic background, ”Mies told the news portal“ focus online ”. 

According to Mies, the investigation is going “in all directions”. Mies was therefore unable to confirm reports that the knife attacks had been preceded by a dispute in a Turkish snack bar in downtown Hanau.

Brutal knife attack: men stab passers-by

Update from Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 10:08 a.m .:  The number of suspects in the case of the knife attacks in downtown Hanau on Tuesday evening ( April 28, 2020 ) is said to have decreased to two. Initially, the investigators assumed five to seven suspects, two men between the ages of 23 and 29 have now been arrested, according to the police. As reported by "Bild", the circle of suspects has now been reduced to the two men in custody. The four injured are not in mortal danger.

Brutal knife attack in Hanau: unknown people stab passers-by

Initial report from Wednesday, 04/29/2020, 9:39: The police has in Hanau after several knife attacks with four injured on Tuesday evening (04.28.2020) two suspects taken into custody from Hanau. As reported by the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse on Wednesday morning (April 29, 2020), four people with injuries, including stab wounds, appeared in the clinic in Hanau on Tuesday evening at around 10 p.m. The police then started a search for several men, a helicopter also being used.

After four people with injuries appeared in the clinic in #Hanau last night, we arrested two suspects, according to a witness.
The two men, aged 23 and 29, are currently in custody.

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- Police Southeast Hesse (@Polizei_soh) April 29, 2020

According to a witness, two Hanauers aged 23 and 29 were arrested. According to the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse, you are currently in custody. The Hanau public prosecutor and the Hanau criminal police have taken over the further investigation. Witnesses are asked to contact 06181 100-123. There is still no evidence of the background of the fact, said a spokesman.

Knife attack in Hanau: attacks in the city center

According to initial knowledge, passers-by who sustained injuries on Tuesday are traveling independently in the areas of Leimenstraße / Langstraße, Hirschstraße and Freiheitsplatz in the city center of Hanau. There they were met and attacked by a group of five to seven strangers, the police said. 

The alleged perpetrators are said to have almost all beards. One is about 20 years old, 1.90 meters tall and muscular. The police in Hanau said that he had dark blond hair and was wearing shorts. The four injured men are 17, two 23 and one 26 years old. According to the police, none of them are in mortal danger.

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Knife attacks occur again and again in Hanau *: A small quarrel escalated last year and culminated in a bloody conflict in the city center, reports op-online.de *.

* op-online.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

List of rubric lists: © picture alliance / dpa / Andreas Arnold

Source: merkur

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