As German Chancellor Angela Merkel frets about opening dialogue with the Taliban and how many more Afghan refugees Germany can absorb, the Afghan crime spree goes on in her country. On Saturday, an Afghan man in Berlin was arrested and charged with stabbing a German woman in the neck. He was apparently angered because he saw the woman working as a landscape gardener. That apparently offended his religious sensibilities.
According to the Berlin Morgenpost, the woman is in critical condition. A man who came to her aid was also stabbed in the neck, but he is improving.
According to the Austrian newspaper, Blick, the woman has died of her injuries.
Blick headline:
Weil sie als Frau arbeiteteAfghane tötet Gärtnerin (†58) in Berlin
Because she worked as a woman
Afghan kills (female) gardener (58) in Berlin
The below article from Berlin Morgenpost (as well as the above) is translated by Fousesquawk.
Man stabs landscape gardener several times in neck
Sept. 5, 2021
Ulrich Kraetzer
Caption beneath photo: Near the intersection where the gardener was stabbed
The Afghan, who seriously injured the woman may be mentally confused. The authorities are also examining a possible Islamist motive.
Berlin. After a knife attack on a Landscape gardener, police are investigating a 29-year-old man who was apparently Islamist motivated as well as mentally confused. The Afghan citizen reportedly first spoke with the 59-year-old woman on Saturday around 13:30 near a green area at the corner of Prinzregenten and Guentzel Streets in Wilmersdorf. According to the police, he was apparently upset that the woman was doing paid work.
Then he reportedly stabbed the woman several times in the neck, and she was critically injured. A 66-year-old man who hurried to her aid was also reportedly seriously injured by several stab wounds to the neck. Both victims were operated on in hospitals.
Police arrested the Afghan right at the scene of the crime
The suspected Afghan was arrested by police at the scene. The State Prosecutor is investigating (him) for attempted murder and serious bodily harm. An investigating judge issued an arrest warrant against the man on Sunday. The man is in investigative custody for attempted murder and serious bodily injury, as well as the attack on the (samaritan) for serious bodily injury, as stated.
The police first reported that a psychiatric illness may have played a role in the crime. The spokesman for the State Prosecutor, Martin Steltnert, said that these indications were not so confirmed so as to justify taking him to a psychiatric facility.
According to police, the investigations are being carried out, "also from the perspective of a possible Islamist-motivated attack". "The man reportedly made statements during the commission of the crime that suggest an Islamist attitude," said the State Prosecutor spokesman, Steltner. As to what statements (were made), Steltner did not wish to say in reference to the on-going investigation.
Parallels to the attack on the city autobahn
Investigators report the attack on the landscape gardener may have parallels to the attack on the city autobahn on 18 August 2020. The crime is attributed to the 30-year-old Iraqi citizen, Sarmad A, who is currently standing trial. With his Opal Astra, he reportedly "hunted motorcycles" and also rammed several cars.
The State Prosecutor attested that A. carried out the attack "for delusional religious and Islamist motives". In investigative circles, they say that in the attack on the landscape gardener, a similar combination of psychiatric illness and Islamist attitude many have been decisive. The two causes are not mutually exclusive; the combination rather may have been decisive for a decision to act.
The condition of the landscape gardener after the attack is said to still be critical, said Steltner. In the meantime, the man who rushed to her aid, on the other hand, is now better.
"Wir schaffen dass noch."(We can still do this.)
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