A knife attack is 12 injured at Hamburg station – Liberation

A dozen people were injured in a knife attack on a quay of the central station in the city of Hamburg, in northern Germany on May 23, 2025, local police and firefighters said.

A person has « Injured several people with a knife at the central station »said Hamburg police in a message on the X social media platform. A spokesman for the Hamburg firefighters told AFP that there was « Three light injured, three seriously injured and six people whose vital prognosis is committed. » The suspect was arrested.

Hamburg central station is the busiest station in Germany, specifies the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the railway company, around 550,000 people pass there every day. This Friday afternoon, the crowd was dense. The German daily reports that passengers could hardly cross on the platform where crime took place.

Germany has experienced several deadly attacking attacks that have shocked the country in recent months, jihadist attacks and far -right violence that have put security issues in the foreground. On Saturday, May 17, four people were injured during a knife assault in the west of the country. The alleged perpetrator is a 35 -year -old Syrian arrested by the authorities who suspect an Islamist attack. He had struck a group of people in front of a bar in the city center of Bielefeld before fleeing.

In August 2024, a man attacked a knife at random to people who attended A municipal party in Solingen In the west of the country, causing three dead and eight injured. A few hours after a claim by the Islamic State, a 26 -year -old Syrian went on Sunday morning and confessed his act to the authorities. This attack had relaunched the debate on the ban on knives across the Rhine.

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