police officer injured in stabbing attack in Mannheim dies

German authorities announced on Sunday June 2 the death of the police officer stabbed in the head on Friday in Mannheim during a knife attack. Aged 29, this police officer was injured while trying to intervene. He “was operated on several times and put into an artificial coma but eventually died”specify the public prosecutor’s office and the police of this city in south-west Germany, in a joint press release.

This attack, which occurred in the city center, targeted an anti-Islam rally. She has been described as“attack” by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Five other people were injured. The attacker, a 25-year-old man born in Afghanistan and living in the country since 2014, was shot and injured during the intervention of the police and has not yet been able to be questioned.

According to investigators, it is still too early to determine with certainty his motivations. But the Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, raised the possibility of an Islamist trail on Friday. The Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner, one of the heavyweights of the coalition government, spoke on Sunday “Islamist terrorism”.