Photo: DPAGermany’s interior ministry confirmed on Monday that a Moroccan man who is suspected of stabbing two women to death on Friday in Finland’s first ever terror attack lived in Germany in late 2015. The 18-year-old suspect, Abderrahman Mechkah, “was in Germany in late 2015, early 2016," said interior ministry spokeswoman Annegret Korff. Finnish police had previously described the suspect as an asylum seeker from Morocco, though the court documents did not mention his nationality. But asylum seekers have also been suspects in a string of terror attacks in Germany and other countries. "Once again Germany is serving as a stepping stone for terror in Europe and the EU," one commentor wrote on Twitter on Monday.

Source: The Local August 21, 2017 14:48 UTC