A suspected sympathiser of the Islamic State who murdered a 35-year-old man on the streets of the German city of Duisburg earlier this year has admitted he carried out the deadly knife attack on orders from the terrorist group to kill its enemies.
The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court heard from the 27-year-old Syrian this week on Thursday, November 2nd, as he admitted that he carried out the attack which left one dead and four others wounded on behalf of the Islamic State, the newspaper Die Welt reports.
The Syrian explained his motivations saying it was
because of the demands and orders of the Islamic State, which called for killing its enemies. And to take revenge for millions of Muslims killed. I wanted to kill as many people as possible.
The attack took place back on April 9th and began on the street where he killed a 35-year-old man and then fled home after hearing the sirens of police.
He later continued his rampage at a local gym in Duisburg, with the Syrian stabbing four more men, none of whom he knew personally, claiming to have left any women he saw alone.
The killer stated that he wanted to attack another gym but did not have the energy due to fasting during Ramadan and also decided not to wait for police, who he was also planning on attacking.
“I wanted to commit more deeds so that I would die as a martyr if I was killed in the process,” he said and added, “I wanted to take them on, but they came while I was sleeping and sent a police dog.”
Shortly after the attack, the Syrian posted a picture of himself on social media along with a post on Facebook that stated,
The Islamic State is here to stay. Its soldiers are expanding the battle fronts day by day until the whole earth becomes a single jihadist field.
He went on to tell the judge in the case, “My life will only begin after I die. I will continue my jihad until they stop declaring war on the Muslims.”
The Syrian is also linked to the 2015 migrant crisis as he fled his native country in order to avoid being drafted into the armed forces, travelling along the Balkan route until he reached Germany and was given an apartment in Duisburg just months after his arrival.
Despite living in Germany for years, he only worked for around six months and spent an additional three months at a German language course which he was expelled from for not showing up.
The story of the Syrian asylum seeker has become all too common in Europe as more and more illegal immigrants and asylum seekers carry out terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.
Illegal migrants and refugees have been involved in terror attacks ranging from the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris to the 2016 Berlin Christmas Market attack, the 2020 Nice Basilica attack, the 2020 beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty and have been involved in many other foiled terror plots since 2015.
This year, two major terror attacks took place in France and Belgium. In the first, a Chechen asylum seeker named Mohammed Mogushkov murdered a teacher in Arras just days before the anniversary of the killing of Samuel Paty.
Mogushkov had arrived in France with his family when he was five years old, and despite his family living in France illegally, the government abandoned attempts to deport them because of pressure from activist groups.
Even when Mogushkov appeared on the S-File terrorist watchlist he was still not deported despite the French government rejecting his application for asylum along with his appeal.
In the second attack, just days later in Brussels, Tunisian illegal immigrant Abdesalem Lassoued fatally shot two Swedish nationals before he was killed by local police hours later.
Like many others, Lassoued came to Europe by boat and arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the gateway to Europe for many illegals, and had been living illegally in Belgium since his asylum claim was rejected in 2020.
However, it later emerged that he had also escaped a lengthy prison sentence in Tunisia and that the Tunisian government not only considered him an Islamist radical but had requested the Belgians extradite him, a request that was simply forgotten about by Belgian authorities.
The case of the 27-year-old Syrian now on trial also highlights the fact that very few of those who arrived in Germany during the 2015 migration crisis ever found meaningful work or joined the German labour force.
A 2021 report claimed that as many as two-thirds of Syrians in Germany were unable to support themselves financially and relied totally on the German state to survive.
