Overview
- Officials say interrogation statements and digital evidence show the attacker targeted an Egyptian man for racist reasons.
- The suspect told police, “They want to take us over, the Arabs,” and lamented he had “only got one,” according to the ministry’s disclosure.
- Investigators reported phone images and chats indicating affinity for Nazi symbolism and racist, arabophobic and gender-hostile views.
- The man was previously re‑examined, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and a substance‑related behavioral disorder, and confined under a Sicherungsverfahren after an attempted‑murder conviction.
- The 45‑year‑old victim was stabbed without warning at a pedestrian crossing on October 25, 2023, and the 40‑year‑old suspect was arrested nearby; Bayerischer Rundfunk first reported the new motive finding.