In the case of the Islamist-motivated knife attack in an ICE between Regensburg and Nuremberg in November 2021, the federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe brought charges before the Munich Higher Regional Court. Abdelrahman A. is said to have pulled out a knife on November 6 and apparently stabbed passengers indiscriminately, investigators said on Monday. Four of them were injured, some seriously, before the attacker could be overpowered by a police officer. A. is now accused of attempted murder, among other things.
By September 2021 at the latest, Abdelrahman had made the decision to make a contribution to the global jihad by indiscriminately killing “infidel” non-Muslims in Germany, the federal prosecutor said. He stabbed various passengers in the ICE several times in the neck, head and chest, two people suffered potentially life-threatening injuries. Immediately after the crime, A. described himself as mentally ill. However, a detailed psychiatric examination came to the conclusion that A. is not mentally ill.
Since January 21 of this year, A. has therefore no longer been in a district hospital, but in custody. So far, it had always been said that the man was Syrian. Now there is talk of a “Palestinian ethnic group” who came to Germany from Syria as a refugee. The man, who was 27 at the time of the crime, is said to have acted alone and radicalized himself with propaganda material from the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS). The federal prosecutor’s office took over the investigation on March 22, 2022 because of the special significance of the case.