Just days after a deranged, troubled Tunisian slammed a truck into hundreds of people in Nice, France killing 84 and injuring hundreds, another attempted terrorist incident took place in Wurzburg, Germany when a 17-year-old Aghan refugee, who arrived in Germany last summer as an unaccompanied minor, attacked train passengers with an axe injuring several, before he was killed by police. It has been now confirmed that the teenager, whose name is allegedly Muhammad Riyad, shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he charged at his victims with an axe, "a first clue" of his possible connection with radical Islam, officials said.
Initial speculation that the attack was of a terrorist nature and that the Afghan teenager, who at the time of the attack was living with a foster family in Wurzburg, was affiliated with radical islam, has now been confirmed after new information was discovered in a suicide note he had left at home, in which the young man asked his father to pray that he could take revenge "on the infidels" and "get to Heaven," officials said.
The train attacker was "a devout Sunni," according to officials, who added that he didn't visit a mosque regularly, but had probably prayed privately, according to RT. He had also published a post against "enemies of Islam" some 24 hours before the attack.
One of the perpetrator's friends, with whom he often spoke by phone, had recently died in Afghanistan, the media were told, with investigators adding that it may have been a trigger for the assault. Cont......
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