Mannheim: Vigil after knife assault – scuffles between police and Antifa | EUROtoday

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NFollowing the knife assault that left seven individuals injured at an occasion organized by the anti-Islam motion Pax Europa in Mannheim, heated scenes befell on Sunday on the town's market sq.. A cross-party alliance had referred to as for a vigil in opposition to violence and hatred. At the identical time, a rally by the Young Alternative, the AfD's youth group, was additionally held in the marketplace sq..

Videos on the Internet present how demonstrators type a protracted human chain within the metropolis middle – and the way the police conflict with a gaggle of Antifa activists. They waved purple flags and lit flares. The slogan “Nazis out” was chanted in the marketplace sq.. According to the “Mannheimer Morgen”, there have been repeated scuffles between police and Antifa supporters.

According to data from Sunday, the police officer who was injured within the assault is in important situation. The motive of the 25-year-old perpetrator remains to be unclear.

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According to data from WELT AM SONNTAG, the suspect is the Afghan Sulaiman A.. He is in hospital and remains to be unable to be questioned. A. has been in Germany since 2014, is married and has two kids, in response to the general public prosecutor's workplace. So far, the person, who was born in Afghanistan, has been charged with tried homicide, because the Karlsruhe public prosecutor's workplace and the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation introduced. An arrest warrant has been issued in opposition to him. He has not beforehand come to the eye of the police, he’s married, has two kids and lives in Heppenheim, Hesse.

Scholz: Take motion in opposition to all those that attempt to limit democratic house

In the assault, the person injured six males on Friday morning at an occasion organized by the anti-Islam motion Pax Europa (BPE) in the marketplace sq. within the metropolis middle, together with a police officer, who was important of Islam. The officer has been put into a synthetic coma. BPE board member Michael Stürzenberger can also be among the many injured.

In view of the knife assault and an assault on the CDU politician Roderich Kiesewetter, Chancellor Olaf Scholz introduced a tricky method to violence. “Whether it is violence against democratic politicians who are active on the left, in the centre or on the right – it is always unacceptable and we will not tolerate it,” the SPD politician burdened on Sunday on the East German Economic Forum in Bad Saarow in Brandenburg. “We will take action against all those who try to restrict democratic space with violence,” he introduced. This applies no matter whether or not there’s a left-wing extremist, right-wing extremist or Islamist motive.

Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) and State Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) additionally referred to as for powerful motion in opposition to individuals who glorify the perpetrator's assault on-line. “Glorifying the murderous knife attack is disgusting and inhumane. Anyone who does this must be prosecuted with the full force of the criminal law. Our security authorities are pursuing this consistently,” Faeser instructed “Bild am Sonntag”. Strobl instructed the newspaper: “Here, crimes – especially murder – are punished with the full force of the law and not celebrated.”

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer referred to as the pictures of the knife assault a tragic testimony to the place extremism leads. “We will never accept violence, regardless of whether it comes from the left, the right or from the Islamist environment,” he instructed “Bild am Sonntag”.

According to BPE treasurer Stefanie Kizina, the assault was aimed particularly at 59-year-old Munich resident Stürzenberger. He has been an lively critic of Islam for years and is being monitored by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Stürzenberger has since given the “Deutschlandkurier” a video interview from his hospital mattress – he had been stabbed to the face and thigh, amongst different issues. Police officers offered first support, he stated. Stürzenberger instructed “Bild” that the assault was an “absolute nightmare” and that it got here out of nowhere.

Even after the knife assault in Mannheim, the BPE desires to look publicly at additional occasions. Kizina assumes that the police will “tighten security measures”.