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Forensics officers stand at the scene of the attack on two children, a few meters from a school.
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The suspected knife stabber in Duisburg was classified as a person with potential risk for several months last year.
This emerges from a report to the state parliament's interior committee.
The 21-year-old is suspected of attempting to maliciously murder two elementary school children at the end of February.
The nine and ten year old children were seriously injured by knife wounds.
Duisburg - In February 2023, he told a doctor that he had committed an act of violence against his mother, the report says.
He was then included in the Periscope early warning system (people with potential for risk).
After the interim reconciliation with his mother and the subsequent non-violent coexistence, he was deported again in October 2023.
In January 2024, two cases of violence against his mother became known.
The supervisory authority will examine whether the accused should have been reclassified as a person with potential risk in view of these incidents.
In January, the 21-year-old is also said to have announced a murder to a witness in Bavaria in a chat.
However, the police in Duisburg did not receive this information in time.
“According to the current reporting situation, we had no information whatsoever,” said North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU).
Attempts are still being made to determine why an investigating judge who wanted to inform the police could not reach them by telephone.
dpa