Germany Enjoys Its Newest Cultural Import, Random Stabbings to Ring In the New Year

The cultural enrichment is gushing all over the street.

Berlin police have detained a man who stabbed two Germans in random attacks in Charlottenburg, a quiet district in the Berlin metropolitan area. The attacker was a Syrian national who had recently arrived in Germany from Sweden.

[ABC News:]

Berlin police said they detained a man Tuesday who attacked and injured two people in the city's Charlottenburg neighborhood, further jolting Germany days after a deadly Christmas market attack elsewhere in the country.

Police said the attacker was a Syrian citizen with residency in Sweden.

"Initial findings indicate that the suspect may have signs of mental illness and that there is not indication for a terrorist motivation," police spokeswoman Jane Berndt told The Associated Press, adding that the investigation is still ongoing.

While the Berlin police don't see any indication of a terrorist motivation, that claim is a little hard to swallow, given recent events in traditional German Christmas markets around that country - at least one of which was carried out by, you guessed it, a Syrian national.

I'm not sure it even makes a difference -- so maybe it wasn't just a terrorist. Maybe it was just a lunatic from Syria who had to flee because he stabbed random people in Syria, but Germany let him in under its suicidal "Wilkommen" policy.

That is no better.

posted by Ace at 02:43 PM

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