The suspected radical Islamist arrested for a deadly knife attack in Hamburg last week could have been deported if it weren't for a slip-up by authorities, Spiegel reported on Tuesday. By the time BAMF workers got around to requesting that Norway take him back, they had missed the deadline to do so - by just one day, BAMF told Spiegel. Norwegian authorities then refused to take him in and thus Germany became responsible for him. "On the day of the act, he resolved to commit an attack with the hope that he would die as a martyr," added prosecutors. Investigators have however not found any indications suggesting that he was a member of jihadist groups like Isis.

Source: The Local August 01, 2017 14:37 UTC