US EditionSuspect Arrested in Germany for Knife Attack on US Man
The 21-year-old suspect was taken into custody on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after the victim suffered non-life-threatening facial lacerations, police said.
- On Tuesday, Dresden police and prosecutors arrested a 21-year-old Syrian in connection with a knife attack on a late-night tram in Dresden, Saxony over the weekend, where a 20-year-old American was hospitalized with facial lacerations after intervening to protect a harassed passenger.
- The suspect had been detained and released soon after the incident, but investigators later said new information might implicate the man in question more directly.
- Police said in a press release that reasonable grounds suspect involvement in the knife attack and injury with a dangerous object, linking the findings to the Tuesday arrest and ongoing investigations.
- In a statement, the US Embassy in Berlin condemned the `brutal attack` and demanded that German authorities `swiftly bring the perpetrators to justice and punish them to the fullest extent permitted by law` due to the American victim.
- Police and prosecutors said investigations are ongoing and that they could not yet provide further details, while as of Monday authorities in Saxony were still seeking a man and appealing for witnesses.
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A 21-year-old is in pre-trial detention because he is said to have attacked an American in the streetcar. A second suspect is wanted. The case also strikes political waves.[more]]>
Dresden: Man arrested after tram knife attack on US citizen
A 21-year-old Syrian citizen is in investigative custody in Dresden after a young American man was stabbed in the face on a tram over the weekend in the eastern German city. New information may link him to the attack.
The 21-year-old Syrian, who also injured the American during the knife attack in Dresden, has now been arrested again. So far ... The post Syrians arrested again after knife attack in Dresden – he is said to have injured the American with a "dangerous object" appeared first on Apollo News.
After the stabbing attack in a Dresden tramway, a 21-year-old Syrian suspect is in custody. The man is said to have been involved in the attack on an American. Rainer Wendt (DPolG) is confident that the police will also capture the second suspect.
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