No ‘terrorist motive’ behind cathedral rampage, Berlin police say

Berlin police say there is no sign that a “rampaging” man with a knife, whom they shot and wounded Sunday at the city’s main cathedral, had a “terrorist motive.”

“Based on what we know so far, we have no information that the suspect in any way had a terrorist or Islamist motive,” a police spokesman says.

The spokesman adds that the man, whose threatening behavior led police to shoot him in the leg, is a 53-year-old Austrian who had been wielding a knife and was “verbally aggressive.”

— AFP

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