Germany: Knife Attack by Syrian Leaves One Dead

Hat tip Telepolis (Heise Online). Translation by Fousesquawk. 

Dresden

On October 4, a Syrian male, age 20, attacked two men in downtown Dresden with a knife. One victim died and the other survived his wounds. The below report adds details to the latest victims of Germany's insane refugee policy. This is being treated as a terrorist attack.

https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Islamistischer-Messerangriff-in-Dresden-4935582.html

Islamic knife attack in Dresden

-Gerhard Piper, October 22, 2020

Abdullah al-H. H. was considered a danger, was let out of prison at the end of September, and five days later, committed the attack against tourists.

Abdullah al-H. H. is a Syrian citizen. In 2015 he came to Germany and lived in a home for asylum-seekers in Dresden-Pappriz (Wachwitzer-Höhenweg  1a). He possesses a short-term residence permit and is 20 years old.

Since the early summer of 2017, he began to become radicalized. Fatema A. recruited him for the Islamic State in July 2017. The Syrian (female) was so badly wounded in an airstrike in 2012 that she has had to use crutches ever since. Her husband was apparently killed in a prison in 2015. In the year 2015, she came as a refugee to Germany. Her asylum request was granted. She was making propaganda for the "Islamic State". In July 2016, she was promoting the then-"ISIS" on behalf of a compatriot at the Dresden University Clinic, as well as in July 2017. In Internet-Chat, she often posed as a man. She wanted -according to the accusation- to support an ISIS-connected sheikh in Morocco with 4,000 euros.

In October or November 2018, she was arrested and kept in the Chemnitz prison. On July 15, 2019, her trial in the Higher Regional Court of Dresden began. Her defense attorney was Gisela Israel. On September 12, 2019, the Higher Regional Court of Dresden sentenced her to a sentence of 15 months, which was suspended for a period of three years (Case number 4 St 2/19).

Abdullah al-H. H. described himself in a chat as a "sleeping cell". On the internet, he researched instructions on how to build explosive belts and was interested in the text, "legal leader client for suicide killers". The festival grounds of the Dresden Marien Bridge and the Cinema Nights on the Banks of the Elbe were apparently then in his sight as possible targets for terror attacks by Abdullah al-H. H. The Regional Criminal Police had since August 2017 classified him as a danger.

In September 2018, the trial against him began in the Higher Regional Court of Dresden. On November 30, 2018, the court sentenced him to a youth sentence of two years and nine months for, among other things, recruiting members or supporters for the "Islamic State", obtaining instructions for carrying out a serious state-endangering act of violence, bodily injury and threats. This punishment was carried out, according to the authority, by the district court in Leipzig on December 9, 2019 included in further sentencing for assault on an official and bodily injury. 

The accused had to serve this youth sentence in full. Not until September 29, 2020 was he released by the Youth Penal Institution, Regis-Breitingen (Saxony). The district court in Borna ordered supervision for him. Thus, he had to report three times weekly to the police station in Central Dresden.

On October 4, 2020, Abdullah al-H. H. committed a knife attack on two tourists in Dresden (Palace Street). One man from Krefeld (55 years) died in the hospital, and his companion from Cologne was wounded. At first, it was not clear why both men-and by whom- were attacked.

The police formed a special commission Palace Street (29 officers) under the direction of First Criminal  Commissar, Frank Haschke. On October 20, 2020 Abdullah al-H. H. was arrested near the scene of the crime. Further investigation was taken over by the General Federal Prosecutor. (Gerhard Piper)