Overview

• Police say the attack occurred around 12:25 a.m. on August 24 on tram line 7 near the Goldener Reiter after the victim stepped in when women were being harassed.
• Officers detained a 21-year-old Syrian nearby, but prosecutors released him, citing insufficient grounds for pretrial detention and that the stabbing could not be attributed to him.
• The suspected knifeman is still at large and has not been publicly identified, and investigators have not recovered the weapon.
• Investigators have secured the tram’s CCTV recordings and issued a call for witnesses, particularly fellow passengers who saw the confrontation.
• The victim later posted videos making allegations about the attackers that authorities have not confirmed, and the case unfolds against data showing roughly 29,000 recorded knife attacks in Germany in 2024.