Germany accuses a Syrian militant of murder after a knife attack

The public prosecutor in Germany said that “murder charges have been brought against a Syrian who killed a German tourist and seriously injured another in a knife attack motivated by religious extremism last year in Dresden, eastern Germany.”
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said, “The suspect, named Abdullah, who is 21 years old, was intending to kill the two men in the attack that he launched on the fourth of October because he considered them infidels.”

“The suspect acted with an extremist Islamic tendency,” the office added. “He chose to punish his victims with murder, because they represent a (infidel) social system that rejects its freedom and openness.”

The Syrian was arrested about two weeks after the attack. He had come to Germany in 2015 with thousands of his countrymen who fled the war.

German officials stripped him of his refugee status after he was sentenced to more than two years in prison for “terrorist activities and was considered a security threat.”

Source: Reuters