Authorities had not believed that the man, a Palestinian from the United Arab Emirates, posed an imminent threat, they said. But Friday’s knife attack left a 50-year-old man dead and five people injured, Hamburg police said. Hamburg police said that the man, whose name they did not release, was acting alone and that his motive remains unknown. A commission is probing the case, and a psychological investigation is being conducted before charges — likely murder and attempted murder — are filed, said Jörg Fröhlich, Hamburg’s state prosecutor. Before that, a friend of the man had alerted security officials to his possible radicalization, said Torsten Voss, head of Hamburg’s state intelligence agency.

Source: Washington Post July 29, 2017 21:11 UTC