The suffering of the victims and their relatives is hard to imagine.
Why did the knife knife from Würzburg attack people completely unknown to him?
The pressure on the investigators to provide an answer is great.
Würzburg - The police are still looking for the motive for the fatal knife attack of a man in Würzburg.
She obviously does not want to publish interim results, but rather assess the evidence in its entirety and then draw conclusions.
Was it an Islamist attack?
Or the act of someone mentally confused or even sick?
Or maybe both?
The Somali stabbed people in downtown Würzburg on Friday afternoon he probably didn't know.
Three women died and seven people were injured, including an 11-year-old girl.
The 24-year-old was stopped with a police shot.
He is in custody for triple murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm as well as willful bodily harm.
As it became known on Monday, the man had already been investigated for dangerous bodily harm: Between 2015 and 2019, he lived in Saxony and was targeted by the Chemnitz public prosecutor there.
Reason: a dispute in an asylum center.
The investigation was then closed.
As clips on the Internet from the Tattag in Würzburg show, passers-by tried to stop the knife.
Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) wants to award these courageous citizens the Bavarian Rescue Medal.
“You have to imagine the situation again.
Someone runs around with a knife, stabs people, and people come with a chair or a broomstick and prevent worse, save lives and then corner them so that in the end the police were able to intervene quickly, "said Söder the newspaper "Welt" (Tuesday).
"It's a great achievement."
Meanwhile, experts examine and evaluate the secured objects that were found in the perpetrator's homeless shelter in Würzburg.
This also includes two cell phones.
"We assume that they belong to him," said a spokesman for the State Criminal Police Office in Munich.
It is uncertain when the first results of the investigation can be presented.
Perhaps the perpetrator was mentally confused or is mentally ill, as investigators have repeatedly pointed out since the attack.
However, it is also examined whether Islamist attitudes could have contributed to the crime.
State Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) said on Sunday evening in the “Bild live” talk “The right questions”: “In view of what we have found, there is a lot to suggest that it could be an Islamistically motivated act.”
The White Ring in Support of Victims of Crime announced that it wanted to stand by the victims and their families and launched an appeal for donations. "Nobody should be left alone after such a traumatic experience," said the club's regional chairman, Josef Wittmann. He urged the public to focus primarily on the victims and not on the perpetrator. dpa