(AFP) German prosecutors on Thursday charged a stateless man of Palestinian origin with two counts of murder over a knife attack on a train in January that killed two teenagers.
Having previously ruled out a “terrorist” motive in the rampage that also wounded several other passengers, the prosecutor’s office in the northern town of Itzehoe said in a statement the assailant had acted “out of anger about his in many ways unresolved personal situation.”
In addition to the murder charges, he faces four counts of attempted murder.
The 33-year-old suspect named only as Ibrahim A. allegedly went on the stabbing spree on January 25 on a train travelling between the northern cities of Hamburg and Kiel.
