“Take care, my darling. We’ll see you later.” With these or similar words, a mother and father bid farewell to their two-year-old child on Wednesday.
As they did every day, they dropped off their little one at the daycare center, entrusting him to the seemingly safe care of his educators. They probably didn’t think much of it. Perhaps they worried about him hitting another child with his little shovel—or getting hit by one. But they certainly didn’t worry about one thing: that it could be the last time they would see their son. Yet, that’s exactly what happened in Aschaffenburg.A group of kindergarten children was sitting peacefully in a wagon pulled by two educators through Schöntal Park. As the pedagogical director of the daycare later described to Main Echo, the two women noticed a man following them. They sensed something was wrong and wanted to leave the park immediately towards the city center. “That’s when he overtook them from behind and stood in front of the wagon with the children,” the educator said. In the next moment, he pulled out a kitchen knife and mercilessly stabbed the five toddlers aged between one and three years.
The man was identified as Enamullah O.—an Afghan national obligated to leave the country, known to the police for violent acts, who couldn’t be stopped in his bloodlust. One of the educators apparently tried to pull him away from the children, but to no avail—she fell to the ground with a broken arm. When a 41-year-old father, who was in the park with his own child, intervened, he too was stabbed by the 28-year-old. The brave helper died, possibly still within sight of his own child. He gave his life and may have prevented even worse—although it’s difficult to say that in this case. Because a little boy is dead. A passerby and two police officers tried to resuscitate two-year-old Yannes on the spot, but in vain. And it almost claimed a second child: a little girl suffered severe cut wounds to her neck. She was taken to a local hospital and is now out of danger. The other children are uninjured according to current knowledge.
But there is another victim: a 72-year-old man suffered stab wounds to his upper body—we don’t know yet to what extent he was involved in the scene. He was probably just in the park by chance. He too was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And the fear of exactly this situation is now probably known to everyone in Germany.
Today, it’s no longer enough to avoid large events like city festivals or Christmas markets to feel good and safe. 20-year-old Philippos was attacked while sitting on a park bench with a friend after his sister’s prom. 30-year-old Martin K. had to die when he wanted to get a drink at a kiosk at night. And Christiane H., Stefanie W., and Johanna H.? They died in 2021 on a perfectly normal day in downtown Würzburg. Christiane was shopping at Woolworth with her daughter—just like Stefanie, who was looking for a dress for her best friend’s wedding. 73-year-old Ingrid L. had just come out of the Sparkasse bank when Somali Jibril Abdurahman stabbed her 13 times. The Würzburg attacker had also been known to the police for some time for violent and knife-related offenses. Like the perpetrator from Aschaffenburg, he had been in psychiatric treatment repeatedly—due to schizophrenia. A disease that, according to Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, Enamullah O. might also suffer from. It can be accompanied by a complete loss of reality, hallucinations, and resulting extreme potential for violence. A risk that could potentially be even higher among refugees or migrants from regions where dogmatic Islam prevails. Because persecutory delusion, a confirmed risk factor for violent behavior, is most common there in intercultural comparison.
Impious commentary by the German mainstream media
This BR24 reporter describes the knife attack as: “interesting” (German :interessant), “thrilling”(German: spanned) and “unusual” (German: ungewöhnlich)
Nevertheless, those affected are not adequately treated in Germany. Instead of placing them in a closed psychiatric facility until they no longer pose a danger, they are left to their own devices—thus endangering the general public. I don’t want to go into this serious state failure further at this point (more on that here). Because we can shorten the debate: Both Jibril Abdurahman and Enamullah O. should not have been in Germany at all. O. came to Germany in 2022 via Bulgaria, Austria, and France. According to the Dublin Agreement, he should have applied for asylum in the country where he entered EU territory. In December, the 28-year-old was actually supposed to be deported to Bulgaria. But he didn’t show up for the interrogation appointment. That was enough to prevent the deportation from being carried out. They didn’t search for him, they didn’t take him into deportation custody. And this, despite Enamullah O. having attacked a woman with a knife just four months earlier. In a shared accommodation, he “repeatedly cut into her skin.” He is also said to have choked and threatened a Ukrainian woman from the neighboring building. But apparently, hardly anyone was interested—it had no consequences at any rate. The planned deportation in December was not based on the acts, but only on a voluntary declaration by the man.When you know this—when you know that crimes are not punished and foreign criminals are not even deported for serious violent offenses—you can no longer feel safe anywhere in Germany. Not in big cities like Berlin, not in small Bavarian communities like Aschaffenburg—neither in a park, nor while shopping, walking, in a bar, or when dropping off your children at daycare.
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