“All the injured have been subsequently taken to varied hospitals, the place a few of them needed to bear emergency surgical procedure,” the Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor’s Workplace and native authorities said in a joint statement Friday night.
They stated the identification of the attacker was unknown. They didn’t launch any details about motive.
German Inside Minister Nancy Faeser wrote on X, “If the investigation reveals an Islamist motive, then that might be additional affirmation of the nice hazard posed by Islamist acts of violence that we’ve got warned about.”
Stuerzenberger has been identified to authorities. The Bavarian State intelligence services have talked about him in successive annual reviews.
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A former member of the conservative Christian Social Union celebration, he has been a part of a number of far-right anti-Islam organizations. He was beforehand convicted of insulting a police officer and of incitement and denigration of non secular teachings. He was additionally beforehand attacked — punched within the face at a 2022 occasion within the western metropolis of Bonn.
Islamophobia in Europe, which peaked on the peak of the migration disaster nearly a decade in the past, has picked up once more amid the Israel-Gaza war, and has included Quran burnings in Sweden and the Netherlands.
Far-right events throughout Europe have been hoping that anti-Islam and anti-migrant sentiment would assist them win seats in subsequent week’s European Parliament elections.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated Friday that the pictures from Mannheim have been “horrible.”
“Violence is completely unacceptable in our democracy,” he wrote on X. “The perpetrator have to be severely punished.”
