In Germany, calls for tough action against Islamists

Baden-Wurtemberg's Interior Ministry has also ordered the deployment of mourning flags on all state police patrol vehicles. Flags on naval police ships and in police and Interior Ministry buildings fly in half-study.

On Friday, a week after the attack, a minute of silence will be held in memory of the new policeman. Another Mass is planned in memory of the deceased. Land Interior Minister Baden-Wurtemberg Thomas Strobl stated: “We are sad, sad, sad” There's a celebration scheduled for the evening in Mannheim.

Chancellor Scholz “equally shaken”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed his deep emotion at the X platform. He is deeply shocked by the news of the death of 29-year-old. His commitment to the safety of all of us deserves the highest recognition of”. The murdered policeman had defended everyone's right to express their opinion. If extremists want to violently limit these rights, they must know: we are their fiercest opponents. We will act with all means of our rule of law”, the German Chancellor said.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also expressed shock. This cannot be allowed to continue. Violence threatens, what has made our democracy strong. ”

The attacker still unable to question

On Friday, a 25-year-old man attacked several people with knives in the Manheim market, wounding six of them, some of them severely. The attacker hit the police in the head, and he passed away Sunday as a result of his wounds.

The knife attack occurred on a billboard organised by the Pax Europe civic movement. Its member Michael Stürzenberger, a critical activist of Islamic religion, was also seriously injured and underwent surgery at the hospital.

The attacker stopped another cop with a shot. According to police, the man was born in Afghanistan and had been living in Germany since 2014. He's married, he has two children and lives with his family in Heppenheim, Hessen.

Karlsruhe's State Protection Department, responsible for political crimes, launched the investigation after the attack. However, the 25-year-old assailant's motive remains unclear. According to the prosecution, the husband has not yet been able to question for health reasons.

In addition to statements of the author's own motive for the crime, investigators hope to receive more information by analyzing the seized material during the search at his residence.

Debate Planned Over Violence Against Police Workers

The attack shifted Islam and violence against police again to the heart of the debate. This horrible act reminds us of the often incalculable danger against which police effectives are daily exposed”, said Land Prime Minister Baden-Wurttemberg, Winfreed Kretschmann.

According to Rheinische Post, at the request of the parliamentary group CDU/ CSU, Bundestag will debate crime and police violence. Head of the police union ( GdP), Jochen Copelke told the newspaper: The current “moment is more important than ever. The German Bundestag must jointly debate the issue of police violence and knife violence”. This should be followed by “Determination in the implementation of the expulsion of criminals and support for police employees”.

Dirk Wiese, deputy head of the SPD parliamentary group, called on the paper for a “enlargement of knife-stop area” in the municipality. This can “strengthen police at local level and have a preventative effect”, even if this way it cannot avoid any act, “particularly in the case of lonely radicalized or spontaneous offenders”.

Oppressive Action Against Islam Is Needed

Germany's Interior Minister. Nancy Fyser stated that the author should be punished “with the maximum severity of law”. “If an Islamic motive is proven, this shows how hard we must continue to fight Islamic terror”, Faeser said.

On TV ARD Caren Miosga, the Federal President of the Green Party, Ricardo Lang, described Islam as the <x0 mic of a free society”. And that's exactly how it should be treated and fought, in terms of security policy and society as a whole. There must be no excuses.” The Green Leader acknowledged that her party “had probably avoided the debate” in the past “because they thought we would end up helping right-wing populist”.

Former Prime Minister of the North Youth Land-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, also called for tougher anti-Islam actions: “Many forms of extremism we have often understood too late,” he said. “We should not make the same mistake right now by underestimating Islam. ”

Linemann in favour of expulsion of criminals

CDU Secretary General Carsten Linemann spoke on television RTL and Ntw for a probably Islamic act and called for the continued expulsion of criminals who have arrived in Germany as refugees. This should also apply to Afghanistan, he said.

<x0migration from Afghanistan should be stopped and repatriations to that location should start”, AfD leaders Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel stated. “To enable this effort, the German government must finally engage in diplomatic dialogue with the Afghan government”. Reports in Afghanistan have been suspended since radical Islamic Taliban came to power in 2021.