In Schleswig-Holstein, a man stabbed himself with a knife on a regional train, killing two people. According to a media report, the number of knife attacks in train stations and trains has risen sharply in the past year. Other crimes are also reported more frequently.
According to a report, the number of acts of violence with knives on trains and at train stations more than doubled in the past year compared to 2021. The federal police have registered 336 such acts, reported the "Bild am Sonntag" and referred to a police evaluation . A total of 398,848 crimes were recorded, twelve percent more than in the previous year.
Among them were 14,155 physical injuries, it said. On the trains themselves, 82 knife attacks were counted, 97 attacks with other dangerous tools and five attacks with guns. The number of sexual offenses has increased from 697 to 857.
The proportion of non-German suspects in cases of serious bodily harm, robbery, murder and manslaughter was 55.5 percent, the newspaper continues. On Wednesday, a 33-year-old Palestinian stabbed two people and injured five on a train in Schleswig-Holstein. The perpetrator was already known to the police and was only released from custody last week.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told the "Bild am Sonntag": "I understand anyone who wonders why this violent criminal was released so quickly and whether everything was done to check whether he was a danger to others." As with her visit to the crime scene, Faeser demanded that it be checked whether the man could have been expelled.
The Union's domestic policy spokesman, Alexander Throm, criticized the federal government: "For over a year, the traffic light has been promising its repatriation offensive for criminals and those who are at risk. Nothing has happened," he told the newspaper. CSU traffic expert Ulrich Lange demanded: "The EU is paying hundreds of millions in support to the Palestinian territories, then one must also be able to demand that people be deported there."
