Germany: three killed and four seriously injured at diversity festival
At least three people have been killed and four are seriously wounded, German police have said, after an attack at a festival in the city of Solingen in the country’s west on Friday night.
Police said the weapon was believed to be a knife.
No one has been arrested and police said they had deployed a “large contingent” including a helicopter to search for the male assailant who fled the scene. Police declined to discuss a possible motive or speculate about the identity of the suspect.
Federal health minister Karl Lauterbach said he hoped “rescue teams can save the wounded who are still alive and that police can catch the cowardly and pathetic perpetrator”.
Regional premier Hendrik Wüst, who arrived at the scene early on Saturday, posted earlier on X that “All of North Rhine-Westphalia stands with the people in Solingen, above all with the victims and their families,” he said, expressing “huge thanks to the many rescue workers and our police who are in these minutes fighting for people’s lives”.
The attack happened at an event marking the city’s 650th anniversary and billed as a festival of diversity that began on Friday and was supposed to run through to Sunday. Around 10,000 people attended, many gathering around a stage with live music on the Fronhof market square in the city centre.
Most of those wounded are believed to have been attacked directly front of the stage, the daily Bild reported, adding that the man appeared to target the throats of his victims.
Eyewitnesses report “Arab looking man”, still at large.
Someone please explain something to me. 10,000 attendees…..one guy with a knife. How is he not red coleslaw fertilizing the ground?
The Ann Coulter Rule applies every time: If it were a white guy, they would have told us.
“Arab-looking” borders on hate speech in Western Europe. Someone will be prosecuted for that.
In Britain the dead would get arrested and charged with ‘dying to spread hate’.
Speaking of the UK… warning graphic… a diversity outbreak… the Government wants Brits dead, or in jail.
What did people do to Mussolini again ?
Starmer is a fascist and an accessory to murder.
https://gab.com/HenryKing1984/posts/113018245892274837/media/1?timeline=video-clips
Immigration is not our strength—- it has provided the gang from HELL ! Any bets the murder has ties to the Islamic State! The Far Left Governments of the West keep inviting these bastards in!
The return of the Death Penalty is needed!
france britain sweden germany ALL brought it on themselves.
one has to ask wtf grande scheme is unfolding?
who would WANT this horde on the land????
People who want a culture clash necessitating a police state.
Bingo! Same answer for North America.
A police state will lose.
Kamala’s good people.
Eyewitnesses saying what the police and media will not.
No idea as to the motive?
How about….They hate you, and they want to kill you.
(Especially if you are having fun at something they are not allowed to do.)
Koranderthals
SATANS SPAWN….
Depravity is their Strength
Who knows what the motive is? It’s such a mystery? Unpossible to know! Nothing to do with the religion of peace!
Mental illness? Mental illness! Yes! That must be it!
Families of the dead will be coddled by idiot liberals who will blow sunshine up their ass to make sure they don’t blame Islam and simply suffer their loss. It’s disgusting. And tiresome. It’s hard to blame victims of modern liberalism, but, but they have a right to cut through the bullshit and should…
Solingen is the centre of knife making in Germany, I’ve never been there but most of my old school kitchen and neck slashing knives are from Wusthof or Henckels and not of the new super thin Japanese types but it’s what I’m used to.
I haven’t seen any reports on who may have been the culprit nor motive but note the above mentioned
Ann Coulter rule, and just because someone looks swarthy doesn’t mean they are swarthy.
The US military swords currently in use are made in Solingen too, though I’m not blaming those guys…
Let me take a moment to scold Germans for NOT passing “common sense knife laws”. There is no reason for Germany to allow the sale of knives with the capacity to cut throats so easily. Surely the German Constitution only intended that German citizens have the right to carry butter knives. There is no reason to carry sharp knives … or to run with sharp scissors.
The German’s 2nd Amendment right to bear butter knives surely doesn’t allow for high capacity throat slicing blades.
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Given that it was a “diversity festival” that “arab-looking” chap wanted to show the crowd just how diverse his culture is.
Just curious … which of the last 650 years of Solingen have ever been “diverse”? I’m guessing Solingen has NEVER been “diverse” until Frau Merkel’s rein of terror.
Yes, I’m prety sure “Ein Volk” was a centuries-old thing.
Ken Gee
There you go full stupid agin. Europe is and always has been very diverse. My father was a gypsy, till he wasn’t, but he was swarthy non the less, as a gypsy and as a nongypsy. There is Friesian, Norwegian (Viking), and Fwench in my heritage. So I ask, have you applied to get yer Uni dues back yet, as they were a waste.
He was talking about Solingen, not all of Europe, so who’s the fully stupid one that can’t read for comprehension.
Gypsies, eh? You mean those nomadic people who never stayed put as they were always unwelcome by the locals? Gypsies who were known for their unsavory behavior? Those Gypsies? UC Berkeley can keep their dues … which were actually quite affordable in 1974 … even for a poor kids who paid his own way through college.
“All of North Rhine-Westphalia stands with the people in Solingen, above all with the victims and their families,”
Getting pretty tired of people “standing” with true victims of crimes and tragedies. Makes the person saying this feel good about themselves, nothing more.
Maybe some beforehand protection, from the people supposedly “in charge”, that being one of their jobs is protecting us.
Standing with the victims they will be “Solingen strong”.
Still meaningless to the dead and their families.
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/knife-day/
*missed it by “that much” ….