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Man storms German police station with machete
In the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, a man armed with a machete stormed a police station on Friday night and threatened to kill the police officers. The background to the crime has now been clarified.
The man of Albanian descent had entered the lock of the police station in Linz am Rhein at around 2.40 am. Because he threatened to kill police officers, the lock area was locked on both sides so that the 29-year-old could not escape.
After the Taser operation, the man was overpowered and arrested by SEK forces. He was slightly injured in the process. The act was motivated by Islamism, the public prosecutor's office in Koblenz announced on Friday. He had repeatedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and announced that he wanted to kill police officers.
IS affinity established
During a search of an apartment following the events, a drawn flag of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) was found on the wall. Due to the indications of an Islamist motive, the Rhineland-Palatinate State Central Office for Combating Terrorism and Extremism at the Koblenz Public Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation.
According to the Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate, Alexander Schweitzer (SPD), the man is an Albanian citizen. He is now to be brought before a magistrate who will decide whether to remand him in custody.
Several incidents within a few hours
On Thursday, an 18-year-old Austrian, resident in Salzburg's Flachgau region, was killed by police in an attack on the Israeli Consulate General in Munich. The authorities in Austria had been investigating the man on suspicion that he might have become religiously radicalized. The man with Bosnian roots was also subject to a weapons ban that would have expired in 2028 at the earliest, according to the Salzburg police.
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