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Dresden (dpa) - Today the trial begins against a man at the Dresden Higher Regional Court who, out of radical Islamist sentiments, attacked two tourists with a knife in Dresden's old town on the 2020 unity weekend and allegedly killed one of them.
The federal prosecutor's office accuses the 21-year-old Syrian of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
He wanted to punish the two men with death as "representatives of a liberal and open social order that he rejected as" unbelieving ".
The young man already knows the specially secured courtroom, which is used for state security proceedings - in 2018 he was sentenced to a juvenile sentence there, among other things, for soliciting members or supporters of a terrorist organization abroad.
A few days after his release from prison, he is said to have stabbed two men from North Rhine-Westphalia on October 4, 2020.
A 55-year-old from Krefeld died shortly afterwards in hospital, a 53-year-old from Cologne survived seriously injured.
He is a joint plaintiff in the proceedings for which the State Security Senate has scheduled twelve hearing dates until the end of May.
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The accused was initially able to escape undetected, the motive for the crime was unclear.
The asylum seeker, who has been tolerated in Germany since 2015, was caught almost three weeks later and is in custody.
In the first trial he was referred to as an IS supporter by an expert.
The then 18-year-old had spoken in court about a possible attack he had planned in Dresden in the summer of 2017.
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