The 27-year-old Afghan stabbed people indiscriminately.
After the opening whistle of Friday's European Championship game, a rampage in Germany barged into the back garden of a supporters' association with a knife and began indiscriminately mowing down people. Before that, he allegedly already killed a man at another location, and by the time the police arrived, he had wounded at least three people. The police eventually shot and killed the attacker.
A few minutes after the kick-off of Friday's opening match, a man armed with a knife attacked at least three people at a closed fan party near Magdeburg. Two were seriously injured, and the man had allegedly killed someone in a nearby block of flats earlier. After the knifeman attacked the arriving police, they shot the man dead
Bild wrote .
The police were called to the family home at 2 Genossenschaftsweg in Wolmirstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, on Friday evening around 10:30. A family invited guests to a closed European championship cheering party.
BUT NOT LONG AFTER THE MATCH STARTED, A STRANGER APPEARED ON THE COURT WITH A KNIFE IN HIS HAND AND IMMEDIATELY STABBED THREE FOOTBALL FANS.
According to the police, the perpetrator was a "southern type". The newspaper Magdeburger Volksstimme wrote that the man had allegedly threatened people with a knife in the garden opposite, and the residents had already called the police because of this. And a few minutes earlier, the stranger running between the plots with a knife attacked and killed a man in a block of flats on the Straße der Deutschen Einheit.
After leaving the first garden, the man with the knife appears to have walked straight into the property on Genossenschaftswegen and indiscriminately cheered on football fans. When the police arrived a few minutes later, the killer attacked them.
Colleagues used firearms, the perpetrator died in the hospital
a police spokesperson told the portal on Saturday morning.
Horror up close
Rudi K. and his wife Petra were just getting comfortable in the living room on Friday evening to watch the first match of the German national team. At the time, they had no idea that an unpredictable killer was running amok in their neighborhood.
We wanted to watch the opening match of the European Championship. After Germany took a 2-0 lead, three loud bangs rang out outside our window. The fans in our neighborhood must have lit firecrackers. After all, we heard the loud shots even though the blinds were down
Petra, whose birthday was also on Friday, told the portal.
At 21:19 in the evening, the football night ended for the couple from Wolmirstedt, as they noticed loud bangs in front of the house just after Jamal Musiala's goal. Her husband, Rudi, thought the neighbors were just celebrating loudly. But it wasn't pyrotechnics. Three shots from the police hit the knifeman from Wolmirstedt (Saxony-Anhalt) right in front of the couple's house.
The shots (two to the head, one to the groin) stopped the 27-year-old man of Afghan origin, who not long before had stabbed his 23-year-old compatriot to death in an apartment in a block of flats on Straße der Einheit.
After his deed, the killer fled on foot and attacked Rudi and Petra's neighbors in the Straße der Genossenschaft, who were watching the match in a closed gathering. "What happened there is just terrible," they both said in shock. The neighbor was not allowed into his house because of the police intervention, Petra and Rudi were unable to sleep that night. Their street was completely closed off.
Our neighbor had just come from a concert in Leipzig. But he was not allowed back in his house, luckily he was able to spend the night at his son's house, a few streets away. The shot man was lying in the street in front of our house until Saturday morning
they said in amazement. Ambulances attended to injured neighbors, and detectives gathered evidence at a spotlight in front of Rudi and Petra's house. On their driveway, three green circles still mark the places where bullets from police weapons landed. "The man probably wanted to escape through our carport, but there is no passage. It came to a dead end," recalls Rudi K.
Bloodstains can be seen on the pavement of Genossenschaftsstraße, barely ten meters from where the couple's couch is. Petra K. is happy: "Actually, that evening we wanted to celebrate my birthday with the family. But luckily we were sitting alone, safe behind the drawn blinds," he said with relief.
Although the couple is still in a state of shock, they expressed their condolences to the victims and their neighbors. "I especially feel sorry for the policewoman who shot me. The poor thing is completely done," said Petra fighting back tears.
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