Overview

• The 45-year-old suspect was remanded into pre-trial detention on Monday after prosecutors and the Landeskriminalamt Kiel executed an arrest warrant.
• Formal investigations have been opened into attempted manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm following the attack in which two Yazidi colleagues suffered upper-body cuts.
• One victim deflected the initial knife thrust while the other fought back with a chair, and co-workers subdued the attacker before police arrived.
• Officials are probing whether anti-Yazidi bias drove the assault at the Quickborn meat processing plant amid rising concerns over religiously motivated violence.
• The incident has reignited security fears for Yazidi survivors of the 2024 ISIS genocide in Iraq, which the German Bundestag recognized as genocide in January.