(AFP) A deadly knife attack on a play school group in Germany, where an Afghan man was arrested at the scene, reignited a bitter immigration debate on Thursday, a month before elections.
Germany was stunned by the latest in a series of bloody attacks, in which a man wielding a kitchen knife on Wednesday stabbed young children in a park in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg.
He killed a two-year-old Moroccan boy and a 41-year-old German man who had tried to protect the children, and wounded three others, among them a Syrian girl also aged two who sustained neck wounds.
The 28-year-old Afghan suspect — partially named by German media as Enamullah O. and with a history of mental health troubles, according to officials — on Thursday was transferred to a closed psychiatric institution.
