The 26-year-old Syrian Isa Al-H handed himself over late final Saturday to law enforcement officials on patrol, stating that he’s the perpetrator of the knife assault in Solingen, wherein three folks died and 5 others had been injured.
“I'm the one you're on the lookout for,” the 26-year-old, who was sporting soiled blood-stained garments, allegedly stated – in line with Bild newspaper.
“Now we have in custody the suspect we now have been on the lookout for all day,” North Rhine-Westphalia's inside minister, Herbert Royle, confirmed to ARD round midnight yesterday.
Der Spiegel journal reported that Issa al-H. was born within the Syrian metropolis of Deir Ezzor and arrived in Germany in December 2022. He utilized for asylum in Bielefeld and a 12 months later was granted “subsidiary safety”, which is commonly supplied by refugees from nations the place civil strife is raging. conflicts.
In keeping with Der Spiegel, he’s a Sunni Muslim, who till now was not recognized to the authorities as an extremist Islamist.
Earlier, the Islamic State (IS) claimed accountability for the assault, within the type of “revenge for Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere”, nonetheless there may be presently no affirmation of IS's relationship with the perpetrator of the assault in Solingen, the German journal identified .
A couple of hours earlier than the suspect within the assault was handed over, as a part of investigations to determine the perpetrator, the SEK particular operations unit raided a refugee lodging middle and arrested a 36-year-old man – who, Mr Royle stated, was discovered to be “not he was the one we had in our sights.”
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