TY - RPRT A1 - O'Connor, Francis Patrick T1 - The knife attack in Hamburg: lone actor violence and mental illness T2 - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de N2 - On the 28th of July, a 26 year old man, Ahmad A. launched a knife attack in a supermarket in the Barmbek area of Hamburg, wounding four people and killing one. He fled the scene of the attack before being forcefully apprehended by some bystanders. The attacker, a rejected asylum seeker, was understood by the police to have been recently religiously radicalised. Hamburg’s Interior Minister Andy Grote explained that he was known to the police as an “Islamist but not a jihadist” and was suspected of having psychological problems. Prosecutors have asserted that he had no known connections with any organized radical network or group and that he had planned on dying as a martyr... KW - Hamburg KW - islamism KW - knife attack KW - lone wolf KW - terrorism Y1 - 2017 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43843 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-438439 UR - http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2017/08/16/the-knife-attack-in-hamburg-lone-actor-violence-and-mental-illness/ N1 - Dieses Werk bzw. Inhalt steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung-NichtKommerziell-KeineBearbeitung 3.0 Unported Lizenz.Über diese Lizenz hinausgehende Erlaubnisse können Sie unter redaktion@sicherheitspolitik-blog.de erhalten CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -