A police officer was fatally stabbed in an assault within the centre of Mannheim in Could 2024
German safety officers say they’re rigorously analyzing potential indications of international finance or affect in a collection of assaults in German cities up to now 12 months.
Nonetheless, they’ve reacted coolly to a German TV report suggesting suspicious web searches had been carried out in Russia earlier than a lethal assault in Mannheim final 12 months.
A 26-year-old Afghan man has admitted a knife assault that focused anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger and killed a police officer in Could final 12 months, days earlier than European elections.
A ZDF TV report has now prompt that Russian Google searches days earlier had included “terror assault in Mannheim” and “Michael Stürzenberger stabbed”.
Digital intelligence analyst Steven Broschart advised the general public broadcaster ZDF’s Terra X Historical past professionalgramme that the searches had been extremely uncommon: “it’s fairly unlikely that we’re speaking a few coincidence right here”.
He spoke of Russian web searches for netcams in Mannheim’s market sq. earlier than the Could 31 assault passed off. —BBC
