Police have shot and wounded a man who, in a rampage, started three fires and tried to set fire to the foyer of a cinema in the German town of Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, while at least 150 people were inside.
The perpetrator is Hassan N., of Iranian origin, flagged by the authorities who would have been deported if he had not been granted a “status of tolerance”.
However, the police believe that it was not a terrorist act.
How they arrested the perpetrator of the attack in Germany
Last night, 38-year-old Hassan N. was seen on the street, holding a can of gasoline, he set fire outside the building where his apartment is located, then a van, and then a job center office, throwing an incendiary device inside, after previously breaking the glass in the window.
On his way to the cinema, he threatened a young Gambian immigrant with a knife and eventually tried to set fire to the floor of the cinema foyer by pouring petrol. Police officers who rushed to the scene immobilized him by shooting him in the legs.
As Focus magazine reports today, two days ago Hassan N. had threatened an employee of the local immigration office, who, realizing that he was using false names, refused to approve a new residence permit for him. The Iranian, who arrived in Germany in 2002, had been described as a “security risk” and considered mentally ill, while in 2010 he was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for grievous bodily harm and attempted rape.
Last January, the ban on deportations to Iran came to the national level. Since then, according to the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, Iranians have been returned.
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