A 44-year-old is said to have stabbed the door of the apartment of a Syrian refugee family more than 100 times with a large knife in Halle-Neustadt.
Halle-Neustadt – A 44-year-old caused a SEK deployment in Halle-Neustadt on Friday morning (October 29, 2021). According to the police, the man entered a refugee home on Hettstedter Strasse around 9 a.m. with a knife.
He is said to have broken into the apartment building and stabbed the door of a Syrian refugee family’s apartment more than 100 times with a large knife. He is said to have repeatedly asked for money, reports the police.
Knife attack on refugee home: perpetrator did not know his victims
The perpetrator apparently did not know the Syrian family, consisting of the parents and a two-year-old child. The whole family was “scared to death,” said the 24-year-old mother to Du bist Halle . In addition, the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung reports that the residents were also very afraid and insecure.
After the man failed to open the door, he fled in an unknown direction. In his apartment in an apartment building in Thaler Weg, the 44-year-old knife attacker was overwhelmed by the SEK forces. No further measures by the police are known to date. (aa)
