The Allah Akbar has struck Dresden. The police do not link the attack to «political statements.»
A 31-year-old Syrian man shouts "Allahu Akbar" and attacks several people with his hands on a street in Dresden-Mickten. He leaves four people injured..
Dresden tram stop where the assault began.
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According to the German media outlet Tag 24, This Wednesday morning, a 31-year-old man carried out a sudden and violent attack in the Dresden-Mickten district. During the incident, Several witnesses claim that the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar.”, a detail mentioned in the initial press reports. However, the police have qualified that this expression does not necessarily imply an extremist motivation, but it could be related to the detainee's mental state.
After shouting Allah Akbar, The man has initiated a series of assaults around the Leipziger Straße tram stop., a very busy area at that time of the morning. The first victim has been a 29-year-old woman who was with a small child. Immediately afterwards, the individual attacked two female drivers: a 67-year-old woman, whom he assaulted after she got out of the vehicle, and another aged 64, whom he struck through the car window.
A 37-year-old man who tried to intervene to help one of the victims has also been hit several times. Despite this, He managed to subdue the suspect until the police officers arrived., who was immediately arrested.
In total, four people have been injured, one of them with injuries serious enough to require urgent transfer to hospital. The other three were able to be treated on the spot by medical teams.
It's not a political cry, it's mental illness.
During his detention, the 31-year-old man displayed clearly disorganised behaviour and obvious signs of psychological distress. According to the police, there was no indication that he had taken drugs or alcohol, and his mental state was so unstable that the officers immediately activated the protocol for a possible psychiatric crisis.
Once he had been taken to the police station and examined by medical services, it was considered that the individual He was not in a fit state to be admitted to a prison. nor of remaining detained in a conventional space. For this reason, a judge ordered their involuntary psychiatric admission in a specialised centre.
The authorities have stressed that, although several witnesses claimed that the man had shouted “God is great” During the attack, this scream It has no political or extremist reading. according to the police. Investigators insist that l’The expression is framed within the state of confusion and psychological disturbance exhibited by the detainee..
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