MADRID 1 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
German police have arrested a man accused of intentionally attacking two people with a knife in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg just two weeks after a deadly car crash in the city of Magdeburg killed five people and injured about 230. according to the latest records from the German authorities.
In this case, the authorities in the capital have confirmed that the attacker was of Syrian nationality and resided in Sweden.
“The initial findings indicate that the suspect may have symptoms of mental illness and that there are no indications of a terrorist motivation,” the police spokesperson told local media consulted by Europa Press.
Through a statement, the Berlin police have described the attack as an “attempted murder,” ensuring that the detainee attacked two men in a supermarket and on a sidewalk in front of a nearby hotel shortly before noon, allegedly stabbing them with a knife. knife he had stolen from the supermarket.
The victims have already been transferred to a hospital and one of them, as reported by Berlin media, has been discharged.