Twelve people were reportedly injured in a knife attack at Hamburg station this evening. According to Bild, the incident occurred on platforms 13-14. Some of the injured were treated and treated on board the trains, three of them are said to be in life-threatening condition.
A 39-year-old woman has been arrested, the Hamburg police confirmed on X: "Based on the knowledge we have so far, we believe that she acted alone," they write on the platform.
According to the reconstruction, the woman, around 6 pm, struck wildly around her, immediately after she was stopped by the police. The origin of the ambush has not yet been clarified by the investigators, even if the methods put the spotlight back on terrorism.
And besides, the numerous attacks of the last year, especially in pre-election periods, have also greatly influenced political decisions. The government of Friedrich Merz has promised a firm hand on immigration and has already announced that it wants to strengthen border controls, deploying 3,000 federal police officers on this front. A decision that has nevertheless raised controversy, leading to a problem in the management of security at railway stations and airports.
The measures taken by the new executive, which took office a few weeks ago, are also being taken to curb the rise of the far-right AfD , which is taking advantage of the climate of general insecurity and is riding the wave of xenophobia, pushing for a "remigration" plan that should affect hundreds of thousands of people in Germany.
In recent months, the number of bloody incidents has dramatically increased. On May 20, a Syrian citizen seriously injured four people in Bielefeld. The investigation has already been taken over by the Federal Prosecutor's Office because there is more than one suspicion that it was terrorism. On February 21, a 19-year-old Syrian stabbed a tourist, seriously injuring him, at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. In this case, too, investigators believe the motive was religious, against the backdrop of anti-Semitic hatred: the man wanted to kill "Jews."
