Machete-wielding Syrian refugee kills pregnant woman in Germany

[sean miguel]

July 24, 2016

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested on Sunday after killing a pregnant woman with a machete in Germany, the fourth violent assault on civilians in western Europe in 10 days, though police said it did not appear linked to terrorism.

The incident, however, may add to public unease surrounding Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy that has seen over a million migrants enter Germany over the past year, many fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.

German police said they arrested the machete-wielding Syrian asylum-seeker after he killed a woman and injured two other people in the southwestern city of Reutlingen near Stuttgart.

The Syrian had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to others, and had apparently acted alone, a police spokesman said.

"Given the current evidence, there is no indication that this was a terrorist attack," a police statement said.

"The attacker was completely out of his mind. He even ran after a police car with his machete," the mass-circulation Bid newspaper quoted a witness as saying. A motorist knocked down the attacker soon afterward and he was then taken into custody by police, the witness told Bid. The police spokesman said the man was being interrogated after receiving medical treatment.

Neither Sunday's attack nor a shooting rampage by an 18-year-old Iranian-German man that killed nine people in Munich on Friday bore any sign of connections with terrorism, police said.

The Islamist militant Telegram channel, however, seized the moment to urge more "lone wolf" attacks. "Perhaps (any) small attack you do may add to the cause for the disbelieving (governments) to finally retreat from attack or oppressing Muslim lands," the group said in an online post, according to the SITE Intelligence Group monitoring organization.

I like the evil version of the Salvation Army plea there. "Any small jihad you can spare would be greatly appreciated. It's the little things. And Allah bless you."


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[sean miguel]

Dino beat me to it. I was in the middle of composing this thread when he posted his thread on the same topic.

Mods, please delete/merge. Thanks, man (or woman).

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I gotta hankering for some Hawaiian BBQ. Good is great!

 

[luckyeight]

This is really bad!

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Going to end up causing the population of these countries to turn on all refugees which in the end could trigger a full scale genocide. If this is what the radicals want it may come to pass.