The day after the stabbing attack near the Eiffel Tower, in which a German-Filipino tourist was killed, Nancy Faeser, the German Minister of the Interior, denounced a “horrible crime”. “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the person killed, as well as others injured by this horrific act,” she said.
The German Interior Minister denounced on Sunday an “abominable crime” the day after the knife attack near the Eiffel Tower, during which a German-Filipino tourist was killed by a young Frenchman known for radical Islamism and attacked psychiatric disorders. “The Islamist knife attack on a young man at the Eiffel Tower in Paris is an abominable crime. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the person killed, as well as others injured in this horrific act,” he said. declared Nancy Faeser, during an interview with the Funke media group.
“Germany is fighting side by side with France against Islamist terrorism. Our security services work in close collaboration,” added the minister. A 23-year-old German-Filipino tourist died on Saturday evening at the hands of a French attacker, a radical Islamist suffering from psychiatric disorders, armed with a knife and a hammer, who also injured two people.
“This brutal act of violence shows how acute and serious the threat of Islamist terrorism is”
The terrorist, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, born in 1997 to Iranian parents, was arrested shortly after the events and placed in police custody. Known for radical Islamism and psychiatric disorders, the attacker shouted “Allah Akbar” at the time of the incident, according to a police source. “This brutal act of violence demonstrates how acute and serious the threat of Islamist terrorism is,” said Nancy Faeser. “The war in Gaza after the Hamas terrorist act aggravates the threat. We are seeing more and more calls for attacks in the jihadist spectrum,” she added, fearing “the risk of a greater (…) radicalization of perpetrators of Islamist violence”
The German authorities have regularly expressed their fear of an importation of the conflict into their country since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the bloody attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7 on Israeli soil. from the Gaza Strip. German domestic intelligence warned at the end of November of a “real danger” and which “has not been so high for a long time” concerning the risks of attacks on its soil.