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Duisburg attack: evidence of a terrorist attack
translated by “Duisburger Attacke: Hinweise auf Terroranschlag"
by Frank Christiansen and Volker Danisch,
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 25, 2023:
Duisburg (dpa) – After the bloody knife attack in a Duisburg gym, the investigators suspect that it could have been a terrorist attack. There are indications of an Islamist motivation for the arrested Syrian, said spokesman for the Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office. This was the result of the evaluation of his mobile phone.
The authority therefore took over the investigation from the Duisburg public prosecutor’s office. RTL West had previously reported on the Islamist finds on the mobile phone. On Tuesday a week ago, the security authorities had raised the alarm.
The crime scene was just one street away from Duisburg City Hall. Special forces with submachine guns had cordoned off the gym. The perpetrator was on the run at the time. It was initially unclear whether there were other perpetrators.
After days of searching, the 26-year-old Syrian was arrested by special units in his apartment not far from the scene of the crime on Sunday night. Two of his acquaintances, aged 26 and 33, had previously given the authorities a tip. Two knives were also secured in the apartment, which are now being examined for DNA traces of the victims as possible murder weapons. According to prosecutors, one of the knives has a 20 centimeter blade.
He kept the knives? You have to wonder what kind of danger his friends are in. Some Islamists will see this as a traitorous act.
A victim is still in mortal danger
Four people aged 21 to 32 were seriously injured in the attack a week ago. According to the police, the 21-year-old is still in mortal danger.
The Duisburg public prosecutor initially announced that none of the victims interviewed knew the alleged perpetrator. This had shaken the investigators’ previous hypothesis, according to which the crime was aimed at one of the victims. Because apparently all four of the injured were accidental victims, they thought an amok attack was conceivable. The finds on the cell phone then quickly required a further re-evaluation of the case.
Arrest warrant for murder
The suspected 26-year-old has so far remained silent on the allegations. A judge had issued an arrest warrant for him for attempted murder. He is now in custody and is now to be examined psychiatrically.
And being a devout Muslim, he will undoubtedly be found to be mentally ill.
A murder commission called “Schwan” had searched for the alleged perpetrator with photos from surveillance cameras. The crime scene is on Schwanenstrasse. His acquaintances said they “100 percent recognized” the 26-year-old, his clothes and his backpack in the pictures.
The images released by the police were from a restaurant, a clothing store and a tram stop near the scene of the crime. According to the authorities, the Syrian applied for asylum in Germany in April 2016. In 2018 he is said to have been noticed in two cases of minor property crimes. Both procedures had been discontinued.
Taking it stupidly easy on Muslim criminals merely convinces them that they can do anything and that European police and courts won't touch them. That is unfortunately pretty close to the truth.
Women Beaten In Vesoul:
‘A Terrorist Act Based Upon Radicalization'
translated from “Femmes Tabassées à Vesoul : ‘Un Acte Terroriste sur fond de Radicalisation,'”
La Presse de Vesoul, April 6, 2023
On Wednesday, March 22, the attack of two women by an individual in the Pierres Vives district aroused emotion in Vesoul and far beyond. Nicolas, one of the sons of one of the victims, Colombe Grillot, testifies alongside Jean-Marc Florand. The family lawyer provides information on this probably premeditated attack.
Since Wednesday March 22, the Grillot family, known for its empathy and its involvement in several associations, has been plunged between horror, doubt and hope. “We learned from our parents to remain optimistic,” notes one of the three sons, Nicolas, holding back his anger. “My dad always repeats that ‘life is beautiful,’ so we cling to these values that they taught us. We are a united and supportive family. We are together around our mom.”
Colombe Grillot, 72 years old in September, was the victim, on Wednesday, March 22, of an attack of rare violence by an individual, in a peaceful street in the Pierres Vives district (our previous edition). A 50-year-old woman was also beaten and left for dead before the attacker violently attacked the septuagenarian. “He crushed our mum by breaking her ribs, pelvis, jaw, all the bones of her face with his fists and kicks. She is disfigured and he left her for dead under the eyes of his (her) granddaughter, my 13-year-old niece,” recounts Nicolas Grillot, who has difficulty relating this episode, in a broken voice. “He wanted to kill her and we would like to understand his motivations, even if we already have an idea.”
After this attack, the public prosecutor commented in a press release in the evening. “At 9:45 a.m. a minibus with two children stopped when a man opened the driver’s door, forced the 50-year-old female driver to get out and beat her with his bare hands. The 34-year-old then attacked a 71-year-old woman who had just entered a house. He also gave her numerous blows before this woman’s granddaughter, who was present at the time of the attack, alerted the police.”
The individual was arrested shortly after at the Vesoul mosque. He was then placed in police custody, then transferred to the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Rémy.
According to our sources, the 30-year-old, born in Vesoul, was not on file S, “state security,” but was known to the police and justice services. According to the prosecution, which qualified the act as “attempted murder,” he displayed “personality disorders and has already received psychiatric treatment in the past.”
Of course, he has psychiatric disorders, he's a devout Muslim.
There are other disturbing elements, charges Jean-Marc Florand, in charge of defending the interests of the family. For him, the charges brought are not appropriate. He explains: “We must wonder about the criminal qualification of the facts which is provisional. The prosecutor declared an attempted murder.” The criminal lawyer agrees: “If the legal elements are confirmed, it would rather be an assassination attempt. It will be necessary to consider retaining a terrorist qualification against a background of radicalization of the perpetrator.”
According to various witnesses, the individual was indeed seen at the scene of the tragedy, a few days before the incident. “He was seen in the vicinity, which goes in the direction of premeditation, therefore of the qualification of attempted assassination. On the other hand, still according to our sources, his behavior questions as to his possible radicalization and his motivations. ”
The Vesulian lawyer continues: “Among the clues, the two victims are exclusively adult women. He did not attack the three children present on the spot (Editor’s note: two children were in the minibus and the granddaughter of the septuagenarian). He was dressed in a traditional outfit with religious connotations and more disturbing, the facts occurred the day before the opening of Ramadan. That raises questions!
Other testimonies are overwhelming. The man was reportedly seen wiping the blood from his shoes and hands following this episode, before resuming his journey on foot towards the mosque. Another person present, testifies to having discovered him, at the end of his outburst of violence, removing his disposable type gloves to abandon them in a trash can (our photo). In a press release, the deputy Antoine Villedieu also mentioned that the attacker refused to address the female nursing staff during his care at the hospital. “Justice and investigators will have to shed light on a possible radicalization. As a reminder, March 22 is also the anniversary of the day of the death of Mohammed Merah.” The terrorist was indeed killed by the police on March 22, 2012, after having murdered seven people, including three children.
The question running through the minds of members of the Grillot family often comes up: “Will he be found incompetent to stand trial and will he be released in a year or two?” Nicolas Grillot refuses to consider this possibility. “We don’t want that so that he doesn’t repeat these facts. We want to put him out of harm’s way!” According to Me Florand, the individual will be the subject of in-depth psychological and psychiatric examinations. “They will be entrusted to legal expert doctors who will have to decide on a possible alteration of his mental faculties or an abolition of his discernment. In the event of alteration, a trial will nevertheless take place before the Assize Court of Haute- Saône, which would not be the case if there were to be a total abolition of his discernment. He observes: “The behavior of this person before, during and after the facts, does not militate in favor of the abolition of his discernment.”
Resuming contact for a patient plunged into a coma means, in medical jargon, “again showing signs of life.” The victim can move a hand, a finger to answer simple questions. This is the case of Colombe Grillot who, on Monday, reacted when her daughter and one of her sons held her hand. “My mum gave signs of contact by moving her fingers and opening one eye,” informs Nicolas. “She underwent major facial surgery yesterday.” A former math teacher, the retiree gave a lot of her free time, taking care of her village church, catechism, preparing for religious ceremonies. She also survived breast cancer thirteen years ago. “She was a fighter who had won against the disease. We know in the family what to fight means. We would like to thank the Vesulian police, the firefighters and the nursing staff, as well as the emergency services of Vesoul hospital and Besançon intensive care unit.”
Did he choose her because of her Christian affiliation?
The second victim is still hospitalized in Vesoul hospital. Her life is not in danger.
As we close our subject, we learn that the author of this double aggression, tried to end his life from his place of internment. The attempt was aborted thanks to the intervention of the nursing staff.
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