Witnesses told police they saw a man suddenly approach the little girl with her mother and stab her with a knife. There was no previous relationship between the man and his victim, the police confirmed.
The four-year-old girl who was stabbed twice in the stomach by a 34-year-old Syrian migrant on Wednesday is better off, wrote the German daily Bild. The incident took place in a supermarket in a town in southern Germany.
The attack happened shortly before 3:00 p.m. at the Norma department store on Zeppelinstrasse in the southern town of Wangen im Allgäu.
Witnesses told police they saw a man suddenly approach the little girl with her mother and stab her with a knife. There was no previous relationship between the man and his victim, the police confirmed.
Paramedics sent to the scene attended to the victim, who was taken to hospital and operated on immediately.
According to the police report, the 34-year-old suspect was arrested near the scene.
According to the Junge Freiheit news portal, the man was armed by a passerby, who caught the attacker and informed the police.
"He took the knife from the man and then chased him"
a police spokesman told Bild on Thursday.
“The witness called the police and told them where the man was. That's how my colleagues were able to arrest him".
The suspect is known to be a Syrian citizen with a Dutch passport. It is unclear why he was in Germany and how long he had been in the country before the attack.
A police spokesman did not confirm to reporters whether the suspect was already known to the police.
"For a child to be attacked out of the blue is shocking to all of us and incredibly distressing and shocking."
said Michael Lang, the mayor of Wangen, in response to the attack.
Bild also reported that the Syrian-Dutch dual national was taken to court where it was found that he "needs psychiatric treatment".
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