Overview

• Police say the four men, identified as Iraqi and Syrian nationals, carried out repeated kitchen-knife attacks outside the Gera Arcaden mall.
• Tuesday’s initial assault left two people injured when the suspects targeted a group of five men and one woman of Syrian and German background.
• Authorities report the same group returned the following evening, fleeing upon police arrival but later being apprehended.
• The public prosecutor has charged the suspects with threat and insult as part of the ongoing case.
• Investigators are also probing a second knife incident at Gera’s Central Transfer Station in which a 45-year-old man attacked another individual.