2020 Dresden knife attack | |
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Location | Dresden, Germany |
Date | 4 October 2020 |
Target | Gay couple |
Attack type | Stabbing |
Weapons | Knife |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 1 |
Motive | Islamic extremism and homophobia |
Accused | Abdullah al-H. H. |
The 2020 Dresden knife attack occurred on 4 October 2020, when a man was killed and another injured during a knife attack in Dresden, Germany. After two weeks, the 20-year-old perpetrator was arrested, Abdullah al-H. H., a Syrian national who arrived in Germany in 2015 to seek asylum. He had been sentenced in November 2018 to two years and nine months for supporting a terrorist organization and planning an attack with contacts with a militant in Yemen and working on the construction of suicide belts. He had been released from prison in September 2020. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism.[1]