Overview

• NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul said initial evaluation of seized data points to a religiously motivated act, focusing on videos the 17-year-old suspect recorded.
• The Zentralstelle für Terrorismusbekämpfung was notified and the Generalbundesanwalt is assessing whether to assume the case from local prosecutors.
• Investigators are examining a suspected link to a separate knife attack on a homeless man at an Essen bus stop earlier the same day, with first findings supporting a connection.
• A judge issued an arrest warrant for attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm after the teacher was severely injured on September 5 during a break at a vocational college.
• Police shot and critically wounded the suspect during his arrest after he allegedly brandished a knife; he is now out of life-threatening danger, and authorities will review earlier decisions that downgraded his 2023 risk classification under the PeRiskoP program.