“There is no element that points in the direction of an Islamist motivation”Sabine Nagel, the police officer in charge of the investigation, said today at a press conference in the city of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz.
A psychiatric expert indicated that the assailant, who had lost his job the day before the attack, suffers from “paranoid schizophrenia” with hallucinations, the prosecutor in charge, Gerhard Neuhofm, said at the press conference.
The detainee, who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, stated that he felt persecuted by police officers who wanted to drive him crazy and thought that one of the people he injured wanted to kill him, the prosecutor added, the German news agency DPA reported.
The German authorities are especially attentive to the Islamist threat, especially since a truck attack claimed by the group Islamic State killed 12 people in Berlin in December 2016.
Germany remains a target, especially because of its participation in the coalition formed to fight IS in Iraq and Syria and because of its presence in Afghanistan until last August.
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