{"id":63399,"date":"2024-05-31T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/six-injured-in-stabbing-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:41:08","slug":"six-injured-in-stabbing-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/six-injured-in-stabbing-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Injured in Stabbing in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/31\/multimedia\/31germany-attack-mfqp\/31germany-attack-mfqp-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Six Injured in Stabbing in Germany\" title=\"Six Injured in Stabbing in Germany\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A man wielding a knife was shot by the police on Friday after he stabbed six people, including a police officer, in the western German city of Mannheim. The officer who was stabbed is in grave condition, according to the public attorney\u2019s office in Karlsruhe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another of the victims was Michael St\u00fcrzenberger, a political activist known for his anti-Islamist views. Mr. St\u00fcrzenberger was campaigning with members of the Civic Movement Pax Europa, a small right-wing group, in a market square on Friday morning ahead of next month\u2019s European Union elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Four other members of the group were also injured, according to a statement issued by the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The police have not confirmed the attacker\u2019s identity or released any information about what prompted the stabbings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf the investigations reveal an Islamist motive, then this would be yet another confirmation of the great danger posed by violent Islamist acts, of which we have warned,\u201d Nancy Faeser, the German interior minister, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The police officer was stabbed several times in the back of the head when he tried to stop the assault, the police said. Another officer shot and subdued the attacker, the authorities said. All of the victims were taken to area hospitals, where several had to undergo emergency surgery. By Friday night, the police said, two of the victims had been discharged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. St\u00fcrzenberger was known to the authorities, including Bavaria\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, for his anti-Islamist views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Germany has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/06\/world\/europe\/germany-political-assaults.html\" title=\"\">noted an uptick in attacks on politicians and campaign workers<\/a> in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cViolence is not acceptable in our democracy,\u201d Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a social media post after the attack. \u201cThe perpetrator must be severely punished.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/31\/world\/europe\/activist-officer-stabbing-germany.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man wielding a knife was shot by the police on Friday after he stabbed six people, including a police officer, in the western German city of Mannheim. The officer who was stabbed is in grave condition, according to the public attorney\u2019s office in Karlsruhe. Another of the victims was Michael St\u00fcrzenberger, a political activist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/31\/multimedia\/31germany-attack-mfqp\/31germany-attack-mfqp-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4791,19,17302],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63401,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63399\/revisions\/63401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}