Sulaiman A. killed police officer Rouven L.: This is what the asylum file reveals about the knife killer from Mannheim

news.de Sulaiman A. killed police officer Rouven L.: This is what the asylum file reveals about the knife killer from Mannheim Story by loc/news.de/dpa • 3 hours • 6 minutes reading time There is sadness and dismay in Mannheim after a 29-year-old police officer died as a result of the serious injuries inflicted on him by a suspected radicalized perpetrator. ・Knife attack in Mannheim: Police officer Rouven L. (29) succumbs to serious injuries ・What is known about the perpetrator Sulaiman A. (25)? ・The attacker from Mannheim came from Afghanistan as a teenager - this is his asylum file After the brutal knife attack in Mannheim, in which a 29-year-old police officer was fatally injured by a 25-year-old man with Afghan citizenship, there is sadness and dismay. While the Federal Prosecutor's Office has taken over investigations into the allegedly religiously motivated attack, there is discussion about what needs to change in German migration policy to prevent such acts of violence. Brutal attack in Mannheim: Afghan stabs Islam critic, police officer (29) fatally injured On Friday, May 31, 2024, a 25-year-old with Afghan citizenship pulled out a knife on Mannheim's market square at an event organized by the Islam-critical movement Pax Europa (BPE). He injured six men, including a 29-year-old police officer. He succumbed to his injuries on Sunday afternoon. The attacker was stopped by a shot from another police officer. According to the police, an Iraqi and a German-Kazakh dual citizen were among the injured. There are video recordings showing that the attacker had looked at the Pax Europa information stand shortly before he stabbed for the first time. In this respect, a connection is conceivable between the attack and the anti-Islam event with board member Michael Stürzenberger, who was also injured in the attack. Slogans such as "Political Islam threatens democracy, freedom, security and human rights!" could be read at the stand of the right-wing populist movement. Mannheim knife attacker injured and unable to be questioned The public prosecutor's office said on June 3 that the perpetrator had not been able to be questioned for health reasons. The 25-year-old was also injured in the minutes after the knife attack. In addition to statements from the perpetrator himself about the motive for the crime, investigators hope to gain further information by evaluating the data storage devices found during a search of his apartment in Heppenheim, Hesse. Horror after fatal knife attack: What is known about the motive of the Mannheim attacker? The Federal Prosecutor's Office now assumes that the perpetrator's motivation was religious. The highest German prosecution authority took over the investigation, a spokeswoman announced in Karlsruhe on June 3. She justified this with the special importance of the case. It is assumed that the man wanted to deny people critical of Islam their right to freedom of expression, she told the German Press Agency. "Spiegel" had previously reported. Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann wrote on the X platform that there is now clear evidence of an Islamist motive. The terrible act of violence is shocking, said the FDP politician. "At the same time, it warns us: The danger posed by religious fanaticism and radical Islamism remains as great as ever." Preventing and prosecuting such acts must continue to be the highest priority for the German security authorities and the judiciary. It is therefore good that the Federal Prosecutor General has now taken over the investigation in order to clarify the exact background. Knife attacker Sulaiman A. came from Afghanistan as a teenager: This is what is known about the perpetrator What is known so far about the man who pulled out a knife on the Mannheim market square and injured Islam critic Michael Stürzenbacher and police officer Rouven L.? According to information from security circles, Sulaiman A. had not been noticed as a criminal or extremist before the fatal attack in Mannheim. The now 25-year-old came to Germany from Afghanistan with his brother in 2013, when he was only 14 years old, as an unaccompanied minor and applied for asylum, after which he was housed in a youth residential group in the Bergstrasse district of Hesse, as the "Bild" newspaper writes. At the time, there was nothing to indicate that the young man, who attended secondary school and completed German courses, would become a knife killer a few years later. Germany is speechless at the news! According to the German Press Agency, Sulaiman A.'s asylum application was rejected in 2014. However, a deportation ban was imposed, presumably because of his young age.