Overview

• The defendant, identified as 26-year-old Sulaiman A., was convicted of murder and five counts of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
• The May 2024 attack targeted an anti-Islam Pax Europa rally in Mannheim, where a 29-year-old police officer, Rouven L., died two days after being stabbed and five others were wounded.
• Prosecutors said he sympathized with the Islamic State group, yet the case proceeded under criminal charges rather than terrorism statutes.
• During the trial he confessed, apologized to the officer’s relatives, and said he had been radicalized through social media after the Gaza war.
• The case features prominently in Germany’s current debates over migration and security policy, with the government tightening border controls and planning more deportations.