Sword and knife attacks: Police arrested dangerous man in Wuppertal

Sword and knife attacks: Police arrested dangerous man in Wuppertal

Heckinghauser Straße, 42107 Wuppertal, Deutschland - On April 15, 2025, a 31-year-old Syrian was arrested in Wuppertal, who was searched for with an arrest warrant. The man, a multiple criminal officer, is accused of having committed several serious crimes in the past few months. Among other things, he is accused of having hit a opponent several times on November 27, 2024, while his victim was seriously injured.

On January 21, the suspect injured another man in a supermarket with a butcher knife and added deep cuts to a hurried witness. Despite the police investigations, he is said to have threatened the two men, they should not say against him. There are also indications that he tried to move a witness to silence with money. When the police received clues to a planned escape of the man, they were able to stop him in his car and implement the arrest warrant. In the event of a conviction, he threatens long prison terms - up to ten years for dangerous bodily harm and up to over eleven years for the attempted incitement to a homicide.