Machete attack in Germany leaves 1 dead, 2 injured
Source: CBC News
A 21-year-old Syrian refugee killed a woman with a machete and injured two other people on Sunday before being arrested in the southern German city of Reutlingen, a police spokesman said.
The asylum-seeking man had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to other people, he said.
The spokesman had no immediate information on when the man arrived in Germany, or when the previous incidents took place.
The assailant was apparently acting alone, the police official said. "There is no danger to anyone else at this time," he told Reuters.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/germany-machete-syrian-refugee-reutlingen-1.3693084
7962
(11,841 posts)Yet he was still on the streets. And STILL being allowed to seek residency in Germany.
Merkel will be gone by year end if this shit continues
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Just a kid who's known nothing but civil war. There's going to be a lot more of this type of shit, mostly in the Middle East.
"Witnesses said the attack happened after an argument developed between the man and the woman in the town of Reutlingen, near Stuttgart." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36879196
JI7
(89,252 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Warpy
(111,276 posts)where she worked and she objected to the theft.
Read the article. It's short.
xocet
(3,871 posts)Here is an approximate translation:
Murder in the Open
By Christine Keck, July 24, 2016, 10:21 PM
...
On Sunday afternoon in the vicinity of the central bus station, a 21-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker (who was previously known to the police) and a 45-year-old Polish woman (both of whom worked at same small restaurant) got into an argument. The young Syrian attacked the woman in the open with an approximately 31-inch-long knife from the Turkish restaurant and fatally injured her.
...
(not translated - She was possibly four months pregnant, and there is mention of an argument over the telephone immediately prior to the murder.)
...
He described the attacker as a friendly guy who purportedly came alone to Germany from Aleppo a year and a half ago. At the restaurant, he supposedly fell in love with the woman whom he just killed. Alhelo stated, "She was from Poland and bussed tables here at the restaurant."
Bluttat auf offener Straße
Von Christine Keck 24. Juli 2016 - 22:21 Uhr
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In der Nähe des Zentralen Omnibusbahnhofes sind am Sonntagnachmittag ein polizeibekannter 21-jähriger Asylbewerber und eine 45-jährige Polin, die im gleichen Imbiss gearbeitet hat, in einen Streit geraten. Der junge Syrer hat die Frau auf offener Straße mit einem rund 80 Zentimeter langen Messer aus dem türkischen Restaurant attackiert und tödlich verletzt.
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Seit einigen Wochen habe er eine Freundin gehabt, seine Arbeitskollegin. Ich glaube, sie war schwanger im vierten Monat, so der Nachbar. Er habe sie jeden Tag mit in die Unterkunft gebracht. Er hatte ein eigenes Zimmer, er war so gewalttätig. Seinen Körper habe er mit einer Rasierklinge geritzt, sagt Mohamad. Ein anderer Bewohner der Unterkunft erzählt, wie er den Syrer kurz vor der Tat am Busbahnhof aufgeregt hat telefonieren sehen: Er war ganz rot im Gesicht und hat laut ins Telefon gesprochen.
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Er beschreibt den Täter als einen freundlichen Kerl, der vor eineinhalb Jahren allein aus Aleppo nach Deutschland gekommen sei. Er habe sich in dem Lokal in die Frau verliebt, die er nun getötet habe, sagt Alhelo. Sie war Polin und hat bei uns das Geschirr abgeräumt.
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http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.bluttat-in-reutlingen-mann-toetet-kollegin-mit-messer.c608ae23-7aa9-47d3-bb56-6f6b986c2194.html
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)going to kill local citizens. Are the locals sacrifices?
7962
(11,841 posts)yet he walks the streets and ends up KILLING a pregnant woman!! He should have at least been in jail, or better yet tossed back to Syria. But the government is afraid to do anything.
Incidents like this, terrorism or not, are what is going to cause the Germans, and probably the rest of Europe, to stand up and say "ENOUGH!!!"
Its just a question of how long and how many more incidents
Warpy
(111,276 posts)where there was mutual damage.
I agree that he should have been looked at a little more closely.
doc03
(35,348 posts)good old born in the USA citizens.
7962
(11,841 posts)who has already hurt people in the past, and he still walks the streets instead of being sent back to Syria
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Warpy
(111,276 posts)He's all yours.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)destruction in their wake - as well as the rapes of women.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Its a disaster and its going to get worse.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)country at risk - as we are saying. I'm horrified of the pregnant woman that was murdered by a Syrian refugee.
Igel
(35,320 posts)Because a lot of the refugees left Syria *before* the fighting got serious in their towns, and have been holed up in Jordan, Turkey, or Lebanon. For many, they were there for 3 or 4 years before they "fled war" and headed to Germany or other points in Europe.
Others toughed it out in-country until recently.
7962
(11,841 posts)And the EU has fallen for it
Warpy
(111,276 posts)and too many of these refugees have nothing to go back to but piles of rubble that's still being fought over.
With more information coming out, he looks like just another male who thought a woman owed him something. She didn't, so he killed her.
doc03
(35,348 posts)getting a firearm and killing and injuring 10 times more people.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Murder by gun is bad. Murder by machete, isn't bad?
doc03
(35,348 posts)Not saying only one death doesn't matter. The point is firearms laws are very strict in Germany and in this case it prevented a person that had mental issues from obtaining a far more deadly weapon and killing many more people. The same person in the USA could easily obtained an AR-15 with multiple 30 round magazines and killed dozens of people. I read some about the German law, you have to get a license to own a gun and in addition to background check you have to buy liability insurance and a secure storage box or safe. I think requiring a license to own a gun, requiring insurance and a safe is going too far. But I no problems with requiring a background check on all gun sales. Germany also limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds for shooting and only 2 rounds for hunting.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Attempting to change the subject from the news of the attack to gun laws. This isn't about gun laws... Make a new OP about gun laws instead of derailing this one about a machete attack
doc03
(35,348 posts)so ban them from the USA?
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)The point was dissiminate news. Then discuss that news. Not an unrelated topic. For example machetes in Germany are unrelated to guns in America.
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)Some people appear to think the OP was to open a door for some more Muslim-bashing. Didn't you notice how it quickly pivoted to fundamental Islam's treatment of women and Syrian refugees instead of the more salient issue of domestic violence?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)"The asylum-seeking man had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to other people, he said. "
Democat
(11,617 posts)So maybe they just let him go and do it again?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)doc03
(35,348 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Sand Rat Expat
(290 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)I don't know that, but it is the most likely.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Attacking national Germans and only receiving "integration training" then let go. The idea being that some of these people have little concept of what's socially wrong.
I have friends in Germany and they are freaking out and if they say anything about it there's repercussions
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)A lot of the young men aren't really refugees, it appears.
The axe-maniac who wanted to go to heaven appears to have been a Pakistani in his 20s, for example.
Who knows if this guy is a Syrian?
romanic
(2,841 posts)Fuck her and fuck the laxing laws that allow scumbags like this to do whatever they want with protection.
7962
(11,841 posts)Then the fun begins; WHO would replace her & what would THEIR policies be?
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)but it's important to understand the facts and the risks and not subject the citizens of a country to them.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)has not been answered.
The German people are seeking a middle way.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)since being allowed to enter and be given an opportunity at a better life. If the 'bad applies' can't be identified, then the risk should have been weighed before the borders were opened.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)Just rediculous