While President Nayib Bukele’s hard-line approach to the notorious Barrio 18 and MS-13 gangs has consistently garnered him approval from Salvadorean voters, he has been painted as a dangerous authoritarian figure, whose emergency measures constitute various human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and mistreatment.
France has the highest overall homicide rate in Europe by total number but according to a French academic, the statistics could be even higher due to how they are classified.
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.
Among those facing trial are students who provided information about the whereabouts of the murdered teacher and an Islamist preacher who allegedly communicated with the terrorist online.
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.
The accused was deemed harmless by a prison psychiatrist before being released from custody where he was being held because of an earlier knife attack.
