Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "حمله با چاقو ۲۰۱۷ هامبورگ" in Persian language version.
The perpetrator shouted "Allahu Akbar" according to several eyewitnesses.
They said "on the day of the act itself, he consequently decided to commit an attack, linked with the hope of dying as a martyr."
L'auteur de l'agression est un homme de 26 ans né aux Émirats arabes unis
The detainee was a 26-year-old Palestinian who was born in the United Arab Emirates and came to Germany in 2015 as a refugee.
The 26-year-old has said that he had hoped to die during the knife attack as a martyr.
Per SPIEGEL's investigation, the attacker is 26-year-old Ahmad A. , who was born in the United Arab Emirates and came to Germany as a refugee.
Both a friend and the head of the asylum-seeker shelter in which the suspect lived had reported as early as last August that the man seemed to be adopting more radical religious views, officials said. Authorities added him to a list of some 800 suspected Islamists in Hamburg
