by & nbspgavin Blackburn & nbspwith & nbspAP
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Top German prosecutors filed a new arrest warrant on Wednesday on the basis of allegations of terrorism by Syrians who stabbed four men outside a restaurant in western Bielefeld last month.
The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the accused, identified solely as Mahmoud M, in line with German privacy rules, was “urgently suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization, attempted murder and dangerous physical harm.”
The defendant allegedly attacked several people with knives outside a restaurant in downtown Bielefeld on May 18th.
Four men were seriously injured in the early morning attack.
Prosecutors argue that the suspects follow Muslim and jihadist ideology.
He reportedly joined Syria’s so-called Islamic state group in the city of Raqqa in December 2014, they said.
After entering Germany, prosecutors said the accused decided to kill as many randomly selected people as possible in Germany.
He “in the name of a global “holy war” and on behalf of the Islamic state,” they added.
“To this end, in the early hours of May 18, 2025, he stabbed a guest with a knife in front of a restaurant in Bielefeld, seriously injured four people,” the prosecutor said.
The newly filed arrest warrant was replaced by the local prosecutor’s office, which was issued by the Bielefeld Court on May 20th.
Mahmoud M. was arrested on May 19th and has been in custody ever since.
On May 20th, the federal prosecutor’s office took over the investigation.
Among other things, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office will take over terrorist lawsuits from local German prosecutors.
