Scholz is furious about the attacks by migrants and demands "immediate consequences".
In the city of Aschaffenburg in Bavaria, on Wednesday afternoon, January 22, a man with a knife attacked a group of children from a kindergarten who were walking with their teachers in park.
Deutsche Welle reports this.
The attacker's victims were a two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old passerby who rushed to protect the children. A two-year-old girl and a 61-year-old man also received serious stab wounds.
The police detained the probable attacker near the crime scene. He turned out to be a 28-year-old citizen of Afghanistan who came to Germany two years ago. During a search of the apartment where the attacker had recently lived, law enforcement officers found no signs of his involvement in any radical Islamist groups.
What is known about the attacker
It is known that at the beginning of 2023, he applied for asylum in Germany. Since then, he has already come to the attention of law enforcement three times “due to violent actions” and has repeatedly undergone psychiatric treatment.
A month ago, the detainee informed the migration authorities that he wanted to return to Afghanistan. After that, the procedure for granting refugee status was suspended, but the Afghan was never deported from the country.
Chancellor Scholz's reaction to the attack
After the attack in Bavaria, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that he was “tired” of regular attacks by foreigners who seemed to have come to seek asylum in Germany. He called on the relevant state authorities to find out why the attacker was still in Germany despite his desire to leave the country.
“I am fed up with the fact that such acts of violence happen here every few weeks. The authorities must explain as quickly as possible why the attacker was in Germany at all. And a false sense of tolerance is completely inappropriate here,” the chancellor said.
Olaf Scholz noted that after the circumstances under which the attacker remained in Germany are clarified, there must be “immediate consequences.” However, Scholz did not specify who or what these consequences should affect – foreigners, officials, or migration processes and bureaucracy.
Recall that in December in Berlin a man attacked passers-by with a knife, injuring several people. The attacker was extremely aggressive, waving the knife and striking without choosing his victim.
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