Fatal knife attack in Dresden: Suspected Islamist wanted to travel to Turkey

At the beginning of October, two men were attacked at the Dresden tourist magnet Frauenkirche - one died, the other was seriously injured.

Now the investigators have caught a suspect.

• A fatal

  knife attack was

  carried out

  in

  Dresden

  on October 4th

  .

• One man

  died

  and another man was

  seriously injured

  .

• According to a report, it could have been a

  terrorist attack

  .

Update from October 24th, 9:52 a.m

.: The alleged

attacker

is said to have tried in vain to

to a sister in

at the end of 2017

.

According to internal documents, the German authorities wanted

to help

the young man from Syria, who had recently been classified as an

and was in custody at the time, with his departure.

The police refer to people as threats if they trust them to commit serious, politically motivated crimes, such as a

.

According to information from the

, the project failed because the

issue him

a

due to a lack of evidence

.

As the

found out, the plan was to provide the Turkish authorities with information about the

, but only after he left Germany.

At the time, the young Islamist and his plans to leave the country were discussed several times in the so-called AG Status of the joint

federal and state

.

He was targeted by the security authorities because he had

advertised the

militia and was looking for instructions on how to build explosive belts.

Fatal knife attack in Dresden: Attorney General has taken over the investigation

In

November 2018, the

him to a

sentence of two years and nine months for,

among other things, soliciting members or supporters of a terrorist organization abroad, obtaining instructions for committing a serious act of violence, bodily harm and threats

.

The young man, whose year of birth is listed in the files as 1998 or 2000, had applied for

in Chemnitz in February 2016

.

In September 2017 - after his arrest - he said, according to the files, that he wanted to leave Germany again.

In April 2018, however, he reportedly stated that he did not want to return to Syria as he would be drafted into the military there.

On 4 October in Dresden were

the victim of a

has become

.

A 55-year-old from Krefeld died, another man (53) from Cologne survived seriously injured.

The young Syrian is under suspicion.

The investigators suspect an

.

The Attorney General has taken over the investigation.

Fatal knife attack in Dresden: police arrest suspects - he is said to be IS supporters

Update of 23 October, 21:15:

The

is the day of the

has been shaded or in its environment neither at the scene.

"The suspect was not observed by the intelligence service during the commission of the crime," clarified the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony on Friday evening.

At no time did the office have any specific evidence that the "target person was involved in this heinous act".

On Thursday, the Saxon security authorities announced that the alleged perpetrator had been under surveillance since his release from a

juvenile prison, but not around the clock.

On the evening of October 4th, a man in downtown Dresden attacked two tourists from North Rhine-Westphalia with a knife and killed one of them.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation and assumes a radical Islamist background.

The 20-year-old suspect comes from Syria, the Saxon security authorities had already classified him as a threat in 2017.

In 2019 his status as a refugee was revoked due to criminal offenses.

However, due to the current ban on deportation to Syria, he has not yet been able to leave the country.

The act fueled the debate about the deportation of criminal refugees.

Update from October 22nd, 7.49 a.m

.: After the arrest of a suspected Islamist because of the knife attack on two tourists in Dresden at the beginning of October, the security authorities are criticized.

The Syrian (20), who is suspected of murder, was sentenced to a

penalty by the

Dresden Higher Regional Court in 2018

for

.

The authorities had had him on the radar as an Islamist since 2017.

This is one of the reasons why there is increasing criticism and calls for complete clarification.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation.

The investigators are convinced that the Syrian attacked the men from North Rhine-Westphalia with a knife and seriously injured them on the evening of October 4th.

A 55-year-old from Krefeld died in hospital, a 53-year-old from Cologne survived.

According to the Dresden authorities, the man has been in Germany since 2015 and has a toleration.

He was released from juvenile prison on September 29 and was still under surveillance.

"Why was this Islamist Syrian not taken into preventive detention or deported after serving his prison sentence," asks the candidate for the CDU chairmanship,

, in "Spiegel".

Michael Theurer, FDP parliamentary deputy in the Bundestag, also accused the authorities of omissions.

He asked the pressing question why the Saxon security authorities “did not monitor the endangered person better” and “the rejected asylum seeker has not long since been deported”.

Fatal knife attack in Dresden: Suspect Syrian has a criminal record

However

, there is a ban on deportation

for

, including those who have been convicted.

The Union members in the Bundestag interior committee Christoph de Vries (CDU) and Michael Kuffer (CSU) therefore demanded a change in the "Bild" newspaper (Thursday): "There are weighty reasons that the interior ministers' conference should adopt the current resolution with a view to protection puts the citizen to the test, ”said de Vries.

Saxony's SPD state chief and Minister of Economic Affairs, Martin Dulig, demanded that the

investigated quickly and without reservation

The deputy parliamentary group leader of the Union in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei (CDU), told the editorial network Germany (Thursday) that Islamist

was by no means irrelevant, that it “continues to pose a high mortal danger”.

The SPD parliamentary group vice-president Dirk Wiese said there: "Our priority must be to combat all forms of extremism." And: "For effective action against extremists and constitutional enemies, we need well-equipped security authorities and appropriate and effective powers."

Fatal knife attack in Dresden: police arrest suspects - he is said to be IS supporters

First report from October 21:

Dresden - Two weeks after a

on two tourists in Dresden with a

and an injured person, the investigators

caught

a

.

The

was arrested in Dresden on Tuesday evening, the police and public prosecutor in the Saxon capital announced on Wednesday.

According to information from the

, it is an

.

He had already been convicted after he stood before the court in 2018 for “instructions to commit a serious criminal offense”, the newspaper continues.

According to the police, the accused was a

;

he was due to be brought before a judge on Wednesday.

According to their own statements, the investigators found out about the man "in the course of evaluating the evidence".

The results justified the suspicion.

Fatal knife attack in Dresden: DNA at the crime scene near the Frauenkirche

According to a report by the

, it is said to be

.

They were therefore on the

used as a

murder

weapon

, which was found

by the police at the crime scene in the city center near sights such as the Frauenkirche and the Green Vault

after the crime of October

.

The suspect's DNA was already

stored

in the

.

The authorities initially did not provide any

information on a possible

the accused.

Based on the results of the investigation, a manhunt was initiated immediately, they said.

The suspect was then discovered on Tuesday evening in the city center not far from the former crime scene and immediately arrested.

Suspect caught after knife attack in Dresden - police with special commission on crime

A 55-year-old was so badly injured in the attack on two tourists that he died in hospital.

A 53-year-old survived with serious injuries.

The two men came from

and visited Dresden together.

They found passers-by and alerted the rescue workers.

The police set up a

to investigate the crime.

(AFP / frs)