At the main train station in Würzburg, a 35-year-old man attacked the stand of Jehovah’s Witnesses with a knife on Monday morning. He slightly injured three men, the assailant was pacified by passers-by and detained by the police.
A 35-year-old man attacked the main railway station in the German city of Würzburg with a knife on Monday morning. Three men suffered minor injuries during the incident, but no stab wounds or cuts, German police said. After the attack, a large part of the railway station was closed. TASR informs about it based on the report of the DPA agency.
Passers-by, among whom was a plainclothes policeman, managed to overpower the attacker. The perpetrator was immediately arrested. The motive of his attack is being investigated by the police.
According to the findings so far, at approximately 7:50 a.m., the suspect approached the stand of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious society in the entrance hall of the station and suddenly made several movements with a knife towards the 68-year-old man. The attacker was also supposed to attack two other men aged 51 and 55.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a Christian community with their own interpretation of the Bible. The tightly organized group was founded in the United States at the end of the 19th century by businessman Charles Taze Russell and is financed by voluntary donations. Jehovah’s Witnesses have approximately eight million members worldwide, the agency said.
The morning incident at the train station is reminiscent of the knife attack by a mentally ill refugee on unsuspecting passers-by, which occurred in the center of Würzburg in June 2021. In the tragedy, three women lost their lives and nine other people were injured, DPA recalled.
