1. A 24-year old Somali guy attacked (with a fair-sized knife) several folks on the street, near the train station. Three dead (one was a young boy), and around ten wounded.
2. Attack was delayed by Germans who took on the Somali (with chairs, umbrellas, broomsticks). Cops then arrived, and shot the guy in the leg after they warned him to drop the knife (he refused). Yes, it was one of those rare cases where the cops aimed at the guy's leg....hit it, without accidentally shooting bystanders.
3. Nutcase or drugs? This is near the Bahnhof and having been there three years for a all-day walk....I might go and suggest drug activity around the station. But you could make the case that x-number of migrants (not just in Germany) have arrived with paranoid schizophrenia issues (some minor, some major).
4. Terror act? So far, zero indications of this. Cops readily suggest this now....just a nutcase.
5. Oddly, the Somali has lived in Germany for five years....almost exclusively at the homeless shelter in Wurzburg. Focus said that they talked to cops and the guy had been recommended to a local mental clinic last week (hint of him acting pretty weird).
Typically, as a migrant, you go through a process. There's the immigrant center, then you get to some point where they assign you a process of German language/integration, then onto job training, and the city helps to get you into a studio apartment. If this story is true about him being long-term at the homeless shelter....it might suggest that he was not competent enough to 'move on'.
6. All of this occurred around 5 PM....as workers were heading home, so more people were on the street at the time.
7. The shot Somali? Taken to the hospital.....he's wounded but ok. Police aren't saying much....probably an official statement on Monday by the Bavarian government.
8. Yes, the guy did yell 'Allah Akbar' at some point in the attack, and this was heard by more than one German. I won't lessen that fact, but you have various nutcases in Germany who self-radicalize themselves and their mental decline helps them attach to this.
9. One odd aspect, around 9 PM....ZDF (Channel Two, out of Mainz) did a short update on this attack. Six years ago, this would have been forbidden by the network management people.
A lot of news dynamics have changed, and the public networks (both ARD and ZDF) are under pressure to report these incidents now.
10. So this whole thing....about a migrant guy who arrived with mental issues, and just lingered on....living out of a homeless shelter, and never proceeding on in life? Yeah, that's the whole basic story.
How many immigrants/migrants arrived since 2013 in this mental situation? It's anyone's guess. Might be a dozen....might be a hundred....might be a thousand. And on any given day....something might spike their behavior enough to buy a knife and kill a few folks on the street.
Old History: Swiss Eritrean guy, summer of 2019, pushing three individuals onto a Frankfurt track (killing one kid). This gentlemen had been in Switzerland for over a decade, and had been considered one of the big integration successes. Two years prior to the incident, he was also noted with paranoid schizophrenia issues.
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