The suspected attacker in Friday’s knife jihad in Solingen has been arrested. He is — surprise! — an asylum seeker from Syria. Like so many violent criminals in Modern Multicultural Germany, he has a one-letter surname, and is identified as Issa al H.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating excerpts from an article in the Berliner Morgenpost. The translator includes this note:

There seem to be conflicting stories in the German media, but it appears that police have the suspected Solingen stabber in custody. Different accounts say he was arrested as police stormed a refugee center, while the Berliner Morgenpost is reporting that a 26-year-old Syrian approached police on the street, dirty and bloodstained, and turned himself in.

The translated excerpts:

In connection with the knife attack in Solingen, police have arrested a suspect. That was announced by North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) to ARD Tagesthemen [news] and spoke of a “real suspect”, who had been sought the entire day.

According to information from Der Spiegel and the Bild newspaper, the 26-year-old Syrian, Issa al H., reportedly still blood-smeared, approached officers on Saturday evening and said, “I am the one, the one you are looking for!”

The alleged perpetrator was born in the Syrian city of Deir al-Sor. At the end of December 2022, he reportedly came to Germany and applied for asylum in Bielefeld. A year later he received so-called subsidiary protection, which refugees from the civil war often receive. He is reportedly a Sunni Muslim and as yet unknown to security authorities as an Islamist extremist.