On the evening of Tuesday, October 8, the German court jailed a Syrian for "attempted murders". The day before, the man had injured eight people while driving on cars in a stolen truck.
Terrorist track? Psychiatric problem? Act related to his status of migrant in an irregular situation? The Frankfurt prosecutor's office said he had charged her and held him in custody, but said he was still "too early" to decide on his intentions. The investigation continues "in all directions". While they do not formally exclude the trail of an attack, evoked by several media, investigators have not yet provided evidence to this effect. The antiterrorist prosecutor's office, for its part, told the German news agency DPA that he still saw no reason to seize the case.
The police raided two homes on Monday night in the district where the suspect lives and near the pileup. They seized cell phones and USB keys.
No relationship established with Islamist circles
According to "sources close to the security services" cited by DPA, the driver of the stolen truck arrived in Germany in 2015, at the height of the influx of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and misery. He was not armed at the time, according to the police and the prosecutor's office, and has "no relationship established at this stage with Islamist circles willing to violence," said the Minister of the Interior, Peter Beuth, in a statement.
After receiving temporary refugee status, he had been in an irregular situation since 1 October 2019, writes the weekly Der Spiegel. He was also known to the police for a brawl with family members dating back to 2008 and for being arrested with 2.9 grams of hashish on him.
According to the police, this man seized a local heavyweight at about 5:20 pm on Monday, to stamp a few more cars that were waiting at a red light in front of the courthouse, dragging them to the airport. hospital of several wounded. Himself touched in the accident, the suspect was arrested and then treated. The collision resulted in a total of nine minor injuries, including the truck thief.
The German authorities are on the alert after several terrorist attacks in recent years. The deadliest was in December 2016, when Tunisian Anis Amri stormed a Berlin Christmas market with a stolen truck, killing twelve people. In April, the boss of the Interior Intelligence estimated that 2,240 Islamists with a "terrorist potential" lived in Germany.
With AFP