Photo: DPAA 26-year-old failed asylum seeker who carried out a deadly knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket likely had a "radical Islamist" motive, German prosecutors said Monday. "It appears that there is a radical Islamist background to the act," they said in a statement with reference to the attack on Friday. Two days before he launched the attack, the suspect "finally decided to adopt a corresponding lifestyle," they said. On Friday afternoon, the suspect entered a supermarket on a lively street in Hamburg and took a kitchen knife measuring around 20 cm (eight inches) from the shelves. "He ripped off the packaging and then suddenly brutally attacked a 50-year-old man who later died," said deputy police chief Kathrin Hennings.

Source: The Local July 31, 2017 14:15 UTC