2024-08-24 07:38:02
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities launched a massive search operation in the western city of Solingen on Saturday after a knife attack during a festival that killed three people and injured at least eight others, five of them seriously .
“The police are conducting a large-scale search for the perpetrators,” the police explained in a statement. A large number of police personnel, including special forces, have been mobilized around the center of Solingen.
“Victims and witnesses were questioned,” he added.
Shortly after 9:30 pm on Friday, witnesses reported to the police that an unidentified assailant had stabbed several people in the central square of Fronhof. The attacker fled, and little information is available about him, according to authorities.
Police said they believe the stabbing was the work of a lone wolf and did not release information about the victim’s identity.
The Diversity Festival, celebrating the city’s 650th anniversary, started on Friday and is expected to last until Sunday, with multiple stages on the main streets of the city center featuring live music, cabaret and acrobatics.
Solingen has approximately 160,000 inhabitants and is close to the cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf.
“We are deeply shocked by the brutal attack on the music festival in Solingen,” German Interior Minister Nancy Feser said in a statement on Saturday morning. “Our security services are doing everything possible to capture the perpetrators and investigate them.” Explain the cause of the attack.”
The rise in knife attacks has caused concern in Germany, where Feser recently proposed tightening gun laws to only allow knives with blades no longer than 6 centimeters (about 2.4 inches) to be carried in public, rather than 12 centimeters (4.7 inches). Knives.
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