It appears there are conflicting stories in the German media, but it appears that police have the suspected Solingen stabber in custody. Different accounts say he was arrested as police stormed a refugee center, while the Berliner Morgenpost is reporting that a 26-year-old Syrian approached police on the street, dirty and bloodstained, and turned himself in. This appears, at this point, to be the correct account.
Here is the account of the Berliner Morgenpost (partial translation):
23:53: In connection with the knife attack in Solingen, police have arrested a suspect. That was announced by North-Rhine Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul (Christian Democrat Union) to ARD "Tagesthemen (news) and spoke of a "real suspect", who had been sought the entire day.
According to information by Der Spiegel and Bild newspaper, 26-year-old Syrian, Issa al H., reportedly still blood-smeared, approached officers on Saturday evening and said, " I am the one, the one you are looking for!"
The alleged perpetrator was born in the Syrian city of Deir al-Sor. At the end of December 2022, he reportedly came to Germany and applied for asylum in Bielefeld. A year later, he received so-called subsidiary protection, which refugees from the civil war often receive. He is reportedly a Sunni Muslim and as yet unknown to security authorities as an Islamist extremist.
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