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German woman arrested after 18 injured in Hamburg knife attack, authorities say
CNN ^ | 5/24/2025 | Billy Stockwell, Sebastian Shukla, Chris Stern and Matthies Otto

Posted on 05/26/2025 8:25:27 AM PDT by simpson96

Eighteen people were injured, four critically, in a knife attack Friday in the German city of Hamburg, authorities said.

Hamburg police said they have arrested a 39-year-old German woman, who they believe acted alone in carrying out the attack at the city’s Central Station, after a major police operation. She is in police custody and expected to be brought to a court on Saturday, police said.

Seven people were “badly injured,” while seven others were “lightly injured,” police said. The victims are aged between 19 and 85 years old.

The four critically injured, who include a 24-year-old female, 24-year-old male, 52-year-old female and 85-year-old female, are in a stabilized condition, police said in an update on Saturday.

Investigations into the incident are ongoing. Police said there was “concrete” evidence that the suspect suffers from a mental illness.

In a statement late on Friday, Hamburg police said the attacker had acted “apparently indiscriminately, stabbed passersby, injuring some of them critically.”

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Following the attack, Germany’s Friedrich Merz thanked the city’s emergency responders for their assistance and said that his “thoughts are with the victims and their families,” according to federal government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius.

Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt also said his thoughts were with the victims and thanked the emergency services. “It is shocking when travelers are attacked in a treacherous and cowardly manner,” Dobrindt said.

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KEYWORDS: findhermosque; lydia; lydias; slashing; stabbing
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To: Leaning Right

It they really prohibit all those, then I welcome these for our big cities which are loud, filthy dens of iniquity. They are doing work that policemen used to do decades ago. Kudos to them.


21 posted on 05/26/2025 9:03:28 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

> Kudos to them. <

I respectfully disagree. Islam doesn’t ask or suggest. It REQUIRES obedience under penalty of death.

You do make a good point about the current state of our cities. But I’d still prefer messy freedom over rigid totalitarianism.


22 posted on 05/26/2025 9:09:05 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: simpson96

How many of these have there been in the past few days?


23 posted on 05/26/2025 9:13:43 AM PDT by fso301
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To: nwrep

Plus the added “bonus” of bringing back slavery?


24 posted on 05/26/2025 9:13:44 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: nwrep

Nah, you don’t. You really don’t.

Source: been to Riyadh. Got beaten up in a ‘no go zone’ in London by a fat muslim in a white nightgown and left on a cobblestone street crying.


25 posted on 05/26/2025 9:18:49 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Gay State Conservative

An ethnically German woman or an administrative monstrosity from some other God forsaken land?


26 posted on 05/26/2025 9:19:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Leaning Right

That picture reminds me of a Gentle Giant album cover..


27 posted on 05/26/2025 9:19:36 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Sorry to hear of your experience, and thank you for your service. I am just tired of the breakdown in our cities.


28 posted on 05/26/2025 9:24:31 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: mewzilla

That’s what I’m thinking. The longer it takes for pictures to come out the more it’s a probability


29 posted on 05/26/2025 9:30:10 AM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: Leaning Right

Muslims can put up signs like that with impunity.

Take one down or deface it and you’re likely to be charged with a “hate” crime.


30 posted on 05/26/2025 9:41:20 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: ansel12
Last year, Germany toughened its legislation on carrying knives, now banned at public gatherings and on long-distance trains. They are also banned in specific zones in some cities, including at Hamburg's train station. But experts and police unions have previously questioned whether such bans are effective.

Guessing such bans are not effective.

31 posted on 05/26/2025 9:44:31 AM PDT by bgill
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To: ma_che62; All

Info on the episode:

1. The 39-year-old German gal is ‘known’ to the police (detained several times since 2021). Homeless...street person. She was arrested in Feb at the Hamburg airport for roughing up some 6-year old kid. Sent at that point to a mental clinic....where a month later...she assaulted one of the patients there. Day prior to attack...she was released by the clinic.

2. From those injured/wounded at the station (track 13...I was actually there four weeks ago)...at least four were treated from falling on the ground or panic-attack related.

3. The two folks who finally grabbed her and held till the police arrived? A young Syrian guy and a older Chechnyan guy.

4. Medical condition of the gal? Paranoid schizophrenic (to the extreme). If you walk out of the east end of the station...about 3 minutes walking...that’s the main drug scene for Hamburg, and it wouldn’t surprise me if she was self-medicating.

5. As for charges? German judges usually slap a 30-day review at a mental clinic, and then write a life-time stay at mental clinic. How she got out from the Feb incident? Unknown.

Final word...the Hamburg station is one of the most chaotic stations in Germany, and at any point around 5PM...there’s probably 20,000 folks trying to move from the subway/bus-lines to the tracks, or stopping to eat at one of the forty-odd pubs/restaurants.


32 posted on 05/26/2025 9:46:21 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Steely Tom
We’re not allowed to know the attacker’s name, apparently.

Because it would reveal that it wasn't really a GERMAN woman.

33 posted on 05/26/2025 9:50:39 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: Steely Tom
We’re not allowed to know the attacker’s name, apparently.

Because it would reveal that it wasn't really a GERMAN woman.

Cause if she was, they'd have plastered her name all over the internet by now.

34 posted on 05/26/2025 9:51:11 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: ClearCase_guy

In America we use the terms:

Self radicalized: When someone inspired by foreign actors and kills people on Fort Hood.

Lone wolf: When someone communicating with Yemeni clerics chips off heads in OK.

Home grown: when Chechen brothers blow up the Boston Marathon.

We create oxymoron definitions that detract from a larger problem. We spend millions on BS studies that are intended to give the answers we want to hear: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-lone-offender-terrorism-report-111319

All western nations are in the same boat on this issue. Globalism, the secular society driven by pure greed met a challenge when trying to accommodate Islam which is about is exclusive, intolerant unchanging and willing to resort to violence as it comes.

The tax payer paid for this: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-lone-offender-terrorism-report-111319


35 posted on 05/26/2025 9:57:23 AM PDT by Red6
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To: nwrep

It is just something that people don’t understand.

While our country has a First Amendment and all of the rights that come with it, other countries have a ZERO tolerance and can administer punishment on the spot. and they can and will and you have ZERO say.

The mentally ill, druggies, homeless, criminals, illegals here on our streets - we need to have a way to deal with them. Lock them up, hard labor, ship them to El Salvador or Nigeria. I really don’t care. I am just tired of having to change my life and way of living to accommodate them and to avoid them and their sloth, violence and begging.


36 posted on 05/26/2025 9:57:39 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: neverevergiveup
That picture reminds me of a Gentle Giant album cover...

LondonShariahGuy
GentleGiantAlbum

Yup, but this Roger Dean cover was killer:
GentleGiantOctopusAlbum

37 posted on 05/26/2025 10:35:47 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (I don't usually warmonger but when I do it's about killing terrorists.)
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To: metmom

Except that her name is Lydia S, a paranoid schizophrenic, homeless, and a ming history of violence including attacking her father and other patients in the looney bin.


38 posted on 05/26/2025 10:51:12 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Ming = long


39 posted on 05/26/2025 10:52:27 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Interesting.


40 posted on 05/26/2025 11:40:54 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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