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Monday, July 31, 2017
Hamburg attacker had ‘radical Islamist’ motive — prosecutor
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGerman federal prosecutors on Monday take over a probe into the deadly knife assault in a Hamburg supermarket, after finding that the attacker likely had a “radical Islamist” motive.
“It appears that there is a radical Islamist background to the act. According to ongoing investigations, the accused had self-radicalized,” federal prosecutors say in a statement, adding that there are no indications that the 26-year-old man named as Ahmad A. was a member of a jihadist group like the Islamic State organization.
— AFP
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