At a city festival in North Rhine-Westphalia, an unknown person randomly injures bystanders. The murder weapon is a knife. As has been happening more and more often recently.
An attacker killed three people with a knife at a city festival in Solingen. The number of knife attacks in Germany has recently increased significantly – and with it the public debate about this type of violence. Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) therefore announced tightening of gun laws.
Last year, the police registered 8,951 cases of dangerous and serious bodily harm in which knives were used either to injure someone or to threaten to do so – an increase of almost 9.7 percent compared to the previous year. 10.9 percent of all robberies recorded in 2023 were also knife attacks.
In police statistics, a “knife attack” is defined as an act in which an attack with a knife is directly threatened or carried out against a person. Simply carrying a knife is not sufficient for this.
The act of an Afghan in Mannheim at the end of May recently attracted a lot of public attention. The man injured five members of the anti-Islam movement Pax Europa and a police officer with a knife. The police officer later died. In mid-June, a 27-year-old Afghan was shot dead by officers in Wolmirstedt in Saxony-Anhalt after he had first stabbed a 23-year-old and then injured several people at a private European Championship garden party.
According to the plans of Interior Minister Faeser, knives with a blade length of up to six centimeters will only be allowed to be carried in public, instead of the current twelve centimeters. There will be a general ban on dangerous switchblades.
Source: Stern
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