(AFP) An Afghan man has been charged with killing a police officer and wounding several others in an Islamist-inspired knife attack that shocked Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The attack in the western city of Mannheim in late May took place just before the scheduled start of a rally organised by Pax Europa, a campaign group against radical Islam.
The suspect, named as Sulaiman A., harbours “sympathy” for the Islamic State group and “shares its ideology,” federal prosecutors said in a statement.
He showed up at the city’s market square armed with a large hunting knife and intended to carry out an attack on those he considered “infidels” or unbelievers, they said.
