A man stabbed the passengers indiscriminately in an ICE in Bavaria.
Now there are evidently indications of an Islamist background.
Munich / Seubersdorf - After the knife attack in the ICE Passau-Hamburg (November 6th), the investigators do not rule out an Islamist background for the act.
ICE knife attack: evidence of an Islamist background
Propaganda videos by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) were found on the accused.
This was announced by the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday.
In addition, content on the 27-year-old suspect's Facebook account pointed in this direction.
The videos were reportedly found on the Syrian's media.
The investigators initially did not provide any further details.
It is still unclear whether an extremist motivation actually played a role in the act.
ICE knife attack: Man randomly attacked fellow travelers and seriously injured four men
At the beginning of November, the man suddenly attacked fellow travelers with a knife on the train that was traveling between Regensburg * and Nuremberg *.
Four men between the ages of 26 and 60 were injured, some seriously.
According to the attorney general's office, the last of them left the hospital on Monday.
After an initial assessment by an expert, the investigators initially assumed that the man had delusional ideas and that his guilty responsibility had been suspended at the time of the crime.
The man is being placed in a psychiatric clinic.
However, the police and the public prosecutor's office had emphasized from the outset that, in addition to the possible psychological motive, other motives should also be kept in focus.
According to the General Prosecutor's Office, a detailed and final report should be commissioned as soon as possible.
In this, the question of whether the man was incapable of guilt at the time of the offense or was less able to blame should be finally assessed.
ICE knife attack between Nuremberg and Regensburg: "New development" for defenders
"This is also a new development for the defense," said Nuremberg lawyer Maximilian Bär, defender of the accused, on Tuesday.
He must calmly evaluate and sift through the new evidence and then discuss it with his client.
The Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET), which is located at the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office, had already started the investigation at the end of last week, according to a statement on Tuesday.
This always happens when there is an extremist or terrorist motivation in a process of greater importance.
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