Drenched from the heavy rain and still bloody, the man approached the police at around 11 p.m. and said, according to BILD: “I am the one you are looking for…” He was apparently hiding in a courtyard after the crime. The 26-year-old Syrian suspect in the knife attack in Solingen on Friday evening, which left three people dead and eight injured, has now admitted his responsibility.
On Friday evening, a man attacked random people with a knife during a celebration marking the 650th anniversary of the founding of the town in North Rhine-Westphalia.killing three people and injuring eight, five of them seriously. After the attack, the attacker managed to escape by blending into the crowd.
A large-scale search operation was launched immediately, which led to the arrest yesterday morning of a 15-year-old boy suspected of having had contact with the perpetrator of the attack. The weapon used was found in the afternoon. In the evening, German police officers from the Special Operations Command (SEK) raided a residence for asylum seekers located near the site of the attack, arresting a 36-year-old Syrian.
However, shortly after, around 11pm, another Syrian man presented himself to the officers on the street, handing himself in and confessing to the attack. The suspect is Issa Al H., who, according to available information, was hiding in a courtyard. According to Spiegel, the man had arrived in Germany in 2022, applied for asylum in Bielefeld and was granted it. Up to that point, he had not attracted attention for his links to Islamic radicalism. The role of the man arrested in the reception center a few hours before the alleged attacker turned himself in remains unclear.
