The people in Würzburg thought on Sunday of the victims of the knife attack on Friday. There was silence in the city and there was hardly any conversation in public places. The city's top had specifically asked people to be quiet at the weekend. "We would like to call for a quiet Sunday in the city," said Mayor Christian Schuchardt. Therefore, in the “Kiliani Summer Garden, which is currently taking place on the banks of the Main as a replacement for the folk festival that has been canceled due to Corona,“ music, advertising and announcements ”will be dispensed with on Sunday. "There is a lot that we have to process now, a little silence will help us."

In the afternoon there was an ecumenical memorial service for the three dead and the injured in Würzburg's Kilians Cathedral. Würzburg's Catholic Bishop Franz Jung says in his sermon: “Helplessness leads us to our limits and shows us our finiteness.” The Protestant Ansbach-Würzburg regional bishop Gisela Bornowski preached that some burdens in life are so heavy “that one breaks apart”. Last Friday was "just a happy afternoon on which everyone is happy that more life is finally possible" despite the corona pandemic: "And then suddenly everything is different." Bornowski thanked the emergency services and the fellow citizens who Would have kept perpetrators in check and thus prevented worse.

Prime Minister Söder seemed moved and touched in his short speech in Kiliansdom: "It hurts so much, it is just unbelievable." have to answer with hatred or vengeance. Clichés or prejudices would not help the victims and their relatives, but only tear further wounds: "Good and bad are not a question of religion or nationality," said Söder.

The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, who lives in Würzburg, said that in his hometown “nothing has been the same since last Friday”. His thoughts are with the victims, their relatives and everyone who witnessed this terrible act. Now it is important to "fend off any attempt to further divide our society". As bad as the experience is, he hopes that the urban society will be "welded even more closely together" as a result.

Mayor Schuchardt expressed in an open letter how hard this act hit the whole city, in addition to the relatives of the dead and the many injured: "I cried last night," he wrote in it.

“Weeping for the victims and their relatives”, but also “for our city”.

When laying a wreath with Markus Söder, he warned against “reflexively exploiting the act politically”.

It is still unclear why the 24-year-old Somali stabbed three women aged 82, 49 and 24 in a department store with a kitchen knife on Friday.

After the crime, the man injured several people, some seriously.

The investigators temporarily classify the man as a psychologically stressed individual perpetrator.

But they are also examining a possible Islamist motive.