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| Hamburg attacker who killed one and injured six is 'known Islamist' with psychological problems | |
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| The attacker who killed one man and injured six others in a stabbing rampage in Hamburg is a “known Islamist”, police say. | |
| Investigators told a press conference the 26-year-old man, who has been arrested, was known to security services but also appears to have psychological problems. | |
| Hamburg's state interior minister, Andy Grote, said the man was a rejected asylum seeker born in the United Arab Emirates. | |
| He said the unnamed attacker was known to have been radicalised but had not been considered dangerous and his motive remained unclear. | |
| Ralf Martin Meyer, the chief of the city’s police force, said that while initial findings showed the attacker had acted alone it could not be completely ruled out that he had accomplices. | |
| Witnesses said the man repeatedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he indiscriminately attacked shoppers with a large kitchen knife at a supermarket on Friday afternoon. | |
| He killed a 50-year-old man and injured six other victims, before attempting to flee as passers-by threw chairs and other objects to prevent him escaping. | |
| A 50-year-old woman and four men aged between 19 and 64 were wounded in the attack, all of whom were German, while a 35-year-old Turkish man was also injured while trying to stop the attacker. | |
| Police said the heroic actions enabled plain clothes officers to arrest the attacker nearby. | |
| Officers have since searched a migrant accommodation centre where the attacker lived | |
| Olaf Scholz, the mayor of Hamburg, said the attacker was “apparently a foreigner who was supposed to leave the country,” but could not be deported because he did not have the necessary identification papers. | |
| “It is infuriating that this perpetrator is someone who asked for protection in Germany and then turned his hate against us,” he added. | |
| Anis Amri, the Isis supporter who killed 12 people at a Berlin Christmas market, had also been the subject of failed deportation attempts and was known for radicalisation and serious crime. | |
| His massacre sparked fresh pledges from Angela Merkel’s government to speed up deportations of failed asylum seekers, as well as monitoring of anyone presenting a security threat. | |
| Germany is less than two months away from parliamentary elections where the Chancellor is attempting to win a fourth term, despite continued tensions over terror, security and her decision to open the country's borders to more than a million asylum seekers at the height of the refugee crisis. | |
| Germany has suffered three Isis-linked terror attacks in little over a year, leaving 12 victims dead and more than 70 injured. | |
| All three perpetrators were migrants, with a suicide bomber in Ansbach being recognised as a Syrian refugee, the Wurzburg train attacker identified as an Afghan asylum seeker and Amri having being denied protection. |