Police: Hamburg attacker was mentally unstable, radicalized Islamist

The attacker who killed one person and injured six others at a German supermarket this week was a radicalized Islamist who appeared to be mentally unstable, police said.


Investigators said the 26-year-old man was known to security services as an Islamist who had become radicalized and appeared to have a "destabilized personality," but had not been considered dangerous, the Independent reported.

"We evaluated him rather as someone who was psychologically unstable than had clear Islamic extremist motivations," Torsten Voss, head of the Hamburg branch of the domestic intelligence agency, said.
 [upi.com]
29/7/17
-
Related:

• One dead, several injured by knife attacker in Germany