German police arrest second person in connection with fatal knife attack
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Officers made the arrest in a building housing refugees located close to the site of the attack and near where a knife was found. Also in the programme: The French president describes an explosion outside a synagogue in the south of the country as an act of terror - and we hear about how Jews see their future in France; and the astronauts who need to stay in space not for the eight days they were expecting, but for eight months.
(Photo: A placard reading 'Why?' among flowers and tributes placed on a sidewalk near the scene after a knife attack, in Solingen, Germany, 24 August 2024. Credit: Volker Hartmann/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to New Zow from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:08.2 | London with me Sean Lay. We begin this hour in Germany where Sonaghan celebrated its 650th anniversary on Friday night. |
| 0:17.0 | It's an evening. The Western German city will never forget, but not for a good reason. |
| 0:22.0 | Three people were killed, eight more suffered severe |
| 0:24.6 | knife wounds after a man attacked people apparently at random. The police provided clarity |
| 0:30.0 | after reports on Saturday afternoon, suggesting they had detained a suspect. |
| 0:34.3 | In the media you will have seen reports that we have detained a 15 year old. |
| 0:41.8 | At the moment the only charging connection with the attack is that of not reporting planned crimes. |
| 0:47.0 | According to available witness statements, an as-yet unknown person is said to have spoken to the youth shortly before the attack about intentions |
| 0:54.7 | that would be consistent with the execution of the act. |
| 0:57.1 | That's Marcus Casp as an official with the public prosecutor's office in nearby Dusseldorf. |
| 1:03.7 | He told reporters at a news conference the authorities are not ruling out terrorism. |
| 1:08.1 | Despite heavy police presence overnight, though, the suspect remained at large. |
| 1:12.2 | Within the last few minutes police have |
| 1:13.7 | confirmed that as a result of what they said was a tip-off, a second arrest |
| 1:17.7 | has been made following an operation at a home for refugees in Soligan, they |
| 1:21.4 | declined to say how the latest suspect may be connected to last night's |
| 1:25.3 | attacks. |
| 1:26.3 | Well, before that news broke, I spoke to the BBC's Germany correspondent, Jessica Parker. |
| 1:31.1 | There was some reporting earlier on in the day about an arrest and it wasn't quite clear what that was |
| 1:37.1 | about because it also appeared at the same time that the police was still very much pursuing |
| 1:41.9 | this hunt for the attacker and they certainly weren't coming out saying |
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