Remember: any study of how the scream of “Allahu akbar” relates to the knife attack would be “Islamophobic,” and so must be eschewed at all costs.
“Knife attacker shouted ‘Allahu akbar,'” translated from “Messer-Angreifer schrie ‘Allahu akbar,'” by Frank Schneider and Birgit Begass, Bild, September 13, 2020 (thanks to Medforth):
Stolberg (NRW) – Bloody knife attack on Sunday night in Stolberg near Aachen!
At 12:40AM, a man is said to have attacked a driver in his car with a knife and seriously injured him. Emergency surgery saved his life. The man is seriously injured in the hospital.
According to BILD information, the attacker is said to have shouted “Allahu akbar” during the attack. As a police spokesman said when asked by BILD, the victim was driving his car at a walking pace when the attacker tore open the driver’s door and stabbed him in the arm with a knife.
The suspect is said to have contacts in the Islamist scene and is still on the run, the police are looking for him urgently.
Nationwide manhunt
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said: “We cannot rule out an Islamist background in the knife attack tonight. That is why the suspect is currently being searched for nationwide.”
According to BILD information, the suspect was already considered an Islamist test case by the state security, after which he was now classified as an Islamist threat.
Further background to the bloody act is currently unclear. According to the police, the act took place at the Bastinsweiher in the middle of Stolberg. The Cologne police took over the investigation into a possible attack background from the Aachen authorities.