AfD MP lays the blame on Social Democrat Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, saying that her backward migration priorities are putting the lives of Germans at risk.
If figures recorded and published by the state criminal police offices
in Germany’s 16 federal states are taken into account, the total number of knife attacks across the entire country exceeded 21,000 in 2022.
UK authorities have yet to announce a possible motive, but stabbing attacks and vehicles used as weapons are common in terrorist attacks in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
The idea has been germinating since last January’s Brokstedt tragedy, a mass stabbing on a train where a 33-year-old stateless Palestinian killed a 17-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend with a kitchen knife.
Vienna’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Dominik Nepp said that the “cycle of violence is apparently spinning faster and faster,” and has called for a security summit.
