Police in Germany are still searching for a motive as they investigate a man who attacked several people at a private European Championship party in a small town.
The incident happened on Friday evening in Wolmirstedt, in the central state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Police said a 27-year-old man broke into a single-family home and attacked several people who had gathered on the terrace to watch the opening match of the 2024 European Championship between Germany and Scotland.
He stabbed several people with a “knife-like object,” police said.
The attacker, originally from Afghanistan, seriously injured a 50-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man. A 56-year-old man was slightly injured.
After the police arrived, the perpetrator allegedly attacked the officers. Police responded with gunfire and the man later died in hospital.
Before the attack at the football party, police said the attacker killed a 23-year-old man in an apartment building not far away. Police did not provide any further details about the victim.
It is important to “shed more light” on the man’s motive, prosecutor Frank Baumgarten said on Sunday. He said there would be extensive questioning of witnesses and people who knew the attacker.
As things stand, Baumgarten said he saw no evidence that the shots fired by two officers at the attacker were unlawful.
