Two days after the fatal stabbing attack in the German city of Solingen, the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) released a video that allegedly shows the perpetrator. In the approximately one-minute video, a young-looking man in a hood can be seen holding a long knife into the camera.
In it, he swears allegiance to the leader of IS in Arabic and calls him the honorary title ‘Emir’. On Saturday, IS had already claimed responsibility for the crime in which three people were killed.
The authenticity of the video cannot be verified
IS announced via its propaganda channels on the internet that it had received videos of the perpetrator of the knife attack in Solingen. Initially, it could not be verified when the video was recorded and whether the man in it is the perpetrator.
In the video, the man calls himself Samarkand A. – possibly a nickname – and says he is from Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria, where terrorist militia cells are still active and carry out attacks today.
The attacker is now in custody
The alleged perpetrator from Solingen, a 26-year-old Syrian, turned himself in on Saturday night and is now in custody. The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of joining IS. Because of his radical Islamist beliefs, he decided to kill as many people as possible at the city festival in Solingen, whom he considered to be infidels. The name given by the investigators is different from the one in the video.
The man in the ISIS video says his attack was in retaliation for the killings of Muslims in Syria, Iraq and Bosnia. Addressing his parents, he said his attack was also in revenge for the “people of Palestine” who suffered massacres backed by “Zionists” — a reference to the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Demonstrations in Solingen
In Solingen, several groups demonstrated in the city center on Sunday. A police spokesman said there were three separate gatherings around the city center and the crime scene. After everything initially went peacefully, some participants in a demonstration by left-wing groups broke through a police cordon. The officers were forced to defend themselves with batons.
The police were on site with the necessary troops to guarantee security. It was unclear how many people were present in the evening. The police expected about 100 to 200 participants in a mourning meeting called by the alliance “Wuppertal is on the other side”, which is supported by left-wing and civil organizations. Wuppertal is located near Solingen in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. According to the police, 50 participants had registered for a demonstration of Junge Alternative, the youth organization of the right-wing AfD party.
Source: Krone
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