German police have launched a manhunt for a knifeman who went on a bloody rampage at a festival in the town of Solingen.
Forensic police inspect on early August 24, 2024 the area where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on Friday night, 23 August 2024 in Solingen, western Germany. Picture: Ina Fassbender/ AFP
On Saturday, police announced they had detained a person as part of the probe, with a prosecutor later saying it was a 15-year-old suspected of “non-denunciation” of a criminal act.Witnesses had allegedly seen the teen discussing the attack just before it happened with a man who could be the knifeman, said Markus Caspers, prosecutor of Duesseldorf that lies just west of Solingen.
“After analysing the first images, we’re going on the principle that it was an attack targeted toward the neck,” police chief Thorsten Fleiss told the press conference. “An unidentified man attacked several people with a knife around 9:40 pm ,” said the statement released by Duesseldorf police.“Out of nowhere, a man armed with a knife stabbed people at random and killed them,” regional interior minister Herbert Reul said in comments at the scene.
“We all wanted to celebrate our town’s anniversary together and now we have to mourn the dead and injured,” he said.Hendrik Wuest, the premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, also expressed his “shock and grief” in a post on social media platform X.Solingen is a city of some 150,000 people located between Duesseldorf and Cologne.
The Solinger Tageblatt said one of the festival organisers went on stage to announce it was cancelled.
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