Around 6 PM yesterday, as folks were attempting to get home....an incident started up at the Ansbach train station (town about 20 miles SW of Nuremberg, deep in the heart of Bavaria).
What the cops say (via BR)?
Some guy (age 30) pulled out a knife, and just started attacking folks....uttering the phrase 'Allah Akbar'.
Wounded? Apparently two folks were cut, but not in mortal danger.
As in most major train stations.....police patrols are a big deal, and within a minute....they were on the scene....telling the guy to cease. No reaction....they pulled their sidearms, and fired. Guy was dead at the the scene.
Muslim radical? Well....here's the thing, as time passes and you examine cases like this, it usually turns out that the guy was a non-German and had mental issues (like paranoid schizophrenia for example).
Nutcase? The police say one interesting comment: "We know who he is." This typically means that they've had run-ins with the guy before and he is a known 'character'.
I know that some folks will pick up this and say it was a terror episode, but if you gaze at news reports over the past five years....you just see this mental issue come out more and more. Most of these episodes are not planned and just the spur-of-the-moment. The script? A guy gets unhinged and does really stupid crap.
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