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Dresden (dpa / sn) - According to his cousin, the accused at the Dresden Higher Regional Court (OLG) for the fatal knife attack on two tourists in October 2020 was never particularly sociable.
"He has always been a loner," said the latter as a witness on Friday in the murder trial against the 21-year-old.
He'd rather be alone, don't have many friends.
“Nobody knows him,” the 23-year-old described the relatives in Dresden.
He himself has had a closer relationship with Abdullah A.
But all attempts to do something with him, to go out, came to nothing - "he always wanted to stay at home," said the witness.
Like friends, they visited each other regularly and he helped him.
"He was alone most of the time."
But after the juvenile detention - A. was convicted in 2018 of propaganda for the terror network Islamic State (IS) - he was "someone else".
The cousin had to turn off the music in the car and A. was religious in a way that was “not normal”.
When he went shopping in the supermarket after his release from prison, he bought two sets of knives for his empty kitchen - two days before the attack - the cousin was amazed.
After the fact, A. was as always, he said.
"I didn't notice anything, nothing at all."
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A. is charged with murder, attempted murder and dangerous physical harm.
The federal prosecutor's office accuses him of stabbing two men from North Rhine-Westphalia from behind with two kitchen knives on October 4, 2020.
One of them died, the other barely survived.
The authority sees the motive in the radical Islamist convictions of the accused.
In discussions with an expert, A. had admitted the act and declared that his aim was to kill unbelievers in his opinion.
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