Knife attack in Hamburg: Intensive offender meets wheelchair user!

Knife attack in Hamburg: Intensive offender meets wheelchair user!

A shocking incident in Hamburg raises questions about the security situation and the efficiency of the police. On April 12, 2025, a wheelchair user was targeted by a knife attack, which was designed by a well -known intensive offender from Syria, identified as Firas A. In the past, this man has made a name for himself through several hundred crimes, including vandalism on over 245 vehicles. The incident occurred when the perpetrator attached passengers on the bus and refused to leave the vehicle. Bus occupants intervened, which motivated the perpetrator to extreme. Although the police had difficulty identifying him, he was already known as an intensive offender and was nevertheless preserved from permanent detention.

Firas A. had already held an overflow of an 84-year-old pensioner at an ATM in 2023. At that time, the authorities were concluded that he did not rely on a risk of repetition, which now turned out to be fatal. The incident not only has shocking consequences for the wheelchair user affected, but for the entire Hamburg population and raises the question of how effective police work really is. Compact online that the return of the perpetrator after his dismissal takes care of the security of all citizens.

Another knife attack in Hamburg

In addition to the incident with the wheelchair user, another knife attack occurred in Hamburg, in which a 25-year-old German is suspected. On a Tuesday morning, a 51-year-old woman who was related to the perpetrator was killed, while another 40-year-old woman who lived with the perpetrator was injured, but was not life-threatening. The police were quickly alerted and found the body of the woman killed in the perpetrator's apartment. n-tv reports that the perpetrator was injured in this and after his treatment in the hospital is shown to a judge should. This incident not only shocked the neighbors, but also reveals the terrifying danger of acts of violence in Hamburg.

The context of these acts of violence is reinforced by the latest figures in the 2024 police crime statistics. According to the bka is the violent crime in the year 2024 increased by 1.5 % to 217,277 cases and thus reaches the highest level since 2007. The increase in suspect children and adolescents, which increases by 11.3 % and 3.8 %. In addition, violent crime rose by non -German suspects by 7.5 % to 85.012. This reflects an alarming development in the area of the security situation, which urgently calls on the public and the authorities to act.

In a time when crime in Germany was reduced by 1.7 %, with a remarkable decline in drug crime, the growth in violent crime and knife attacks show the complexity and challenge in front of which the security forces face. The police work and political decisions must therefore be increasingly dealing with these dramatic developments in order to ensure the security of citizens.