(DPA) The southern German city of Aschaffenburg on Thursday mourned the victims of a deadly knife attack on a group of children, as investigators searched for a motive and lawmakers questioned why the Afghan suspect was not deported earlier.
Mayor Jürgen Herzing warned of a “spiral of violence and hatred” following the incident, in which a 2-year-old child and a 41-year-old man were killed and three others injured in a park in the Bavarian city.
At a wreath-laying ceremony, Herzing said there were “parallels” to December’s car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg, which left six people dead.
“A refugee attacks, injures and kills innocent people,” Herzing said. “We can see the parallels.”
