Mannheim police dead after knife attack

Published 3 June 2024 at 08.41

Foreign. The policeman in Mannheim, Germany who was stabbed in an attack on an Islam critic has died of his injuries.

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It was on Sunday that an Afghan a suspected terrorist act was committed in Mannheim.

The Afghan attacked a square meeting and stabbed, among other things, the Islam critic profiler Michael Stürzenberger.

The attack was filmed, and the video shows how a police officer who intervenes is stabbed from behind by the perpetrator.

The policeman – 29-year-old Rouven L – died on Sunday of his injuries, according to German media.

The 25-year-old Afghan was shot by another policeman and was able to be arrested .

Rouven L was first mocked by users on social media when in the first video it appeared as if he was trying to grab a man in a blue jacket who in turn was trying to save Michael Stürzenberger. But another video shows that it was in fact the man in blue who, apparently by mistake, attacked a person who tried to stop the Afghan, and that the policeman therefore intervened against him.

The incident has received a lot of attention. great attention in Germany and is considered to be able to influence the outcome of the EU election later this week.