The individual responsible for attacking multiple people at an anti-Islamization rally in the German city of Mannheim on Friday has been identified as Sulaiman A., a 25-year-old Afghan migrant. A graphic video of the attack shows the Afghan national and resident of Hesse attacking people at a rally against Islamist extremism organized by the Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa (BpE), described as a counter-jihad group.
Multiple people attempted to restrain the attacker, including a police officer who appeared to be stabbed in the neck while trying to bring the attacker to the ground. A second police officer then shot the suspect, wounding him.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has raised the possibility that the attack could be Islamist-motivated. “If the investigations reveal an Islamist motive, this would be a further confirmation of the great danger posed by Islamist acts of violence,” she said in a statement.
The National Pulse has previously reported that migrants in Germany have been the source of a wave of violent crime. Recent data disclosed by Germany‘s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) revealed that foreign migrants, who account for just 14.6 percent of the country’s population, were implicated in 58.5 percent of all violent crimes in the country.
Meanwhile, the German Interior Ministry has confirmed that the number of foreign criminal suspects surged to approximately 923,000 in 2023, a rise of almost a fifth year over year.
