Law enforcement officials in Germany and France arrested two Islamic foreign nationals in separate cases who are accused of carrying out terrorist attacks over the weekend in the respective countries.
Approximately 200 police officers in France were searching for the individual who blew up two cars at a synagogue in La Grande-Motte on Saturday morning, tried to enter the building with a gun, and later set the building on fire — all while carrying a Palestinian flag.
Local media said that police arrested a 33-year-old Algerian man who was suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack.
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“Before the police could intervene, (the suspect) opened fire on the (police), which returned fire,” police said. “The man was wounded in the face.”
A separate attack was carried out late Friday night in the German city of Solingen at the “Festival of Diversity” — a three-day event celebrating the 650th anniversary of the city’s founding.
Witnesses described the suspect as “Arab-looking,” and they say that he shouted “Allahu Akbar” while stabbing nine people, killing three. Police said four of the six who survived remain in life-threatening condition.
The suspect, a 26-year-old Syrian identified as “Issa Al H.” turned himself in to authorities and took credit for the attack, NBC News reported. Police said that he shares the same terroristic ideology as ISIS, which he reportedly joined before the attack.
“Due to his radical Islamist beliefs, he decided to kill as many people as possible, who he considered to be non-believers, at the Solingen city festival on August 23, 2024,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. “There he stabbed festival visitors repeatedly and deliberately in the neck and upper body with a knife.”
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ISIS claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack, saying: “The perpetrator of the attack on the Christian gathering in the city of Solingen, Germany, yesterday, was a soldier from the Islamic State, and he carried it out as revenge against Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.”
