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German police mentioned earlier Saturday {that a} 15-year-old particular person had been arrested in reference to the assault , however the hunt for the perpetrator continued. Police later arrested a second particular person at a house for asylum seekers in Solingen, the German information company DPA reported.
Special police items had joined the seek for the knifeman who minimize the throats of revelers at a crowded competition to have a good time town’s 650th anniversary. Four of the individuals wounded within the assault have been in critical situation.
After the assault, German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck mentioned some tightening of weapons restrictions is important. “More weapons-free zones and stricter weapons legal guidelines — no one in Germany wants reducing and stabbing weapons in public. We aren’t any longer dwelling within the Middle Ages,” Habeck mentioned.
Hendrik Wuest, premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, described Friday night’s assault throughout a competition within the metropolis as an act of terror.
“This assault has struck on the coronary heart of our nation,” Wuest informed reporters.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mentioned the “full power of the regulation have to be utilized” to the Solingen assault. “The perpetrator have to be caught shortly and punished to the complete extent of the regulation,” he mentioned in a submit on X.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser mentioned German safety authorities “are doing every thing they will to catch the perpetrator and decide the background to the assault.”
