German prosecutor submits terror-related arrest warrant for Syrian man who allegedly stabbed four

Among other things, the federal prosecutor’s office will take over terrorism-related cases from local prosecutors in Germany.

Germany’s top prosecutor submitted a new arrest warrant on Wednesday based on terrorism allegations for a Syrian man who stabbed and critically injured four men outside a restaurant in the western city of Bielefeld last month.

The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the accused, who has only been identified as Mahmoud M. in line with German privacy rules, “is urgently suspected of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.”

The defendant allegedly attacked several people with a knife outside a restaurant in downtown Bielefeld on 18 May.

Four men were seriously injured in the early morning attack.

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