Munich terrorist shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘infidels’ and then kills one, injures others
The incident took place with the attacker yelling “Allahu Akbar” and “infidels” charging with a knife in hand. German media sources have spoke to several witnesses, confirming the fact, but officials excused the details away, claiming that the “assailant made remarks at the scene of the crime that indicate a political motive – apparently an Islamist one,” Ken Heidenreich, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, told AFP. “We are still determining what the exact remarks were.”
cover of a Quran photo by crystalina via wikimedia commons
The media call the man, Paul H, 27, and revealed that he’s from Hesse in central Germany and does not have a migrant background.
Senior police official Guenther Gietl told media that a woman who witnessed the incident heard the attacker shout “infidel, you must die” at the time of the stabbing.
According to senior police official Lothar Koehler, the man made a “rather confused impression” during questioning. For example, the man said he had taken his shoes off because “he felt bugs on his feet that had caused blisters and were generating intense heat,” Koehler said.
The man might have taken drugs days before the attack, the officer said, adding that police found no previous narcotics cases against the alleged assailant.
Koehler added that the suspect apparently had no accomplices or connections with extremists.
