The Mannheim attacker, Sulaiman A., is still unable to be questioned more than two weeks after the knife attack. As the portal “Mannheim24” reports, A.’s life is in danger after he was shot by a police officer. He has now been put into an artificial coma.
The WELT report was confirmed by investigators in Baden-Württemberg. The Federal Prosecutor General’s Office, which has taken over the case, has not yet responded to an inquiry.
On May 31, the Afghan attacked five members of the anti-Islam movement Pax Europa, led by anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger. A police officer who arrived was stabbed in the neck while trying to stop the attacker. He later died in hospital. Another officer shot Sulaiman A. dead.
Because Sulaiman A. specifically attacked Stürzenberger, an Islamist motive is likely. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office also assumes a religious motive. At the beginning of June, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann wrote on X that there were “clear indications of an Islamist motive”. Sulaiman A. had not previously come to the attention of the police.
The Afghan came to Germany in 2013. His asylum application was rejected in 2014, but he was not deported. Last year he was granted the right to remain because he had had a child with a woman in Germany. WELT research shows that Sulaiman A. has apparently become radicalized on the Internet in recent years.
Investigators had searched his apartment in Heppenheim just a few hours after the crime on Friday evening. Electronic data storage devices were also confiscated.
On Friday, 2,000 people commemorated the killed police officer, Rouven L., with a funeral march in Mannheim. The 29-year-old’s family called for the crime not to be exploited. It is now primarily up to politicians to make a change.
