After knife attack in Berlin: Police shoots terrorists from islamist's scene

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The attacker who attacked a policewoman with a knife on Thursday in Berlin and was shot was an islamist according to the public prosecutor's office. The 41-year-old Iraqi lived in Berlin.
A police-known islamist has attacked a policewoman with a knife in Berlin and then has been shot. The 41-year-old Iraqi was condemned because of membership in a terror group, informed the public prosecutor's office on Thursday. Therefore, the man living in the capital stood under leadership supervision and had to carry an electronic foot chain which he had gone away, however, in the morning.
He has been condemned already in 2008 by the higher regional court of Stuttgart, said upper public prosecutor Dirk Feuerberg. According to the information of the newspaper "Die Welt" it concerns Rafik Y. , the chief planner of a thwarted poster on the Iraqi Prime Minister Ijad Allawi at that time in Berlin in 2004.

Flat is searched

Freudenberg said, it is too early to say whether the action motivates terrorist and has been it a prepared poster. The flat of the man is searched and checked for tips to terror plans.
At 9. 48 o'clock an emergency call from the part of town of Spandau had come at the police. Passers-by had observed how a man with a knife threatened people. Four patrol cars reached the scene shortly after as the speaker said. When the first both policemen got out and approached the man, this has attacked them with the knife. As a result several shots have been delivered.

"Dramatic incident"

According to media information the culprit of the 44-year-old policewoman stung below the bulletproof vest in the belly. The 30-year-old colleague of the injured woman shot several times at the attacker. Besides, there was also a penetration wound after which the ball still met the policewoman.
The attacker died in spite of reresuscitation attempts in a rescue car. The seriously injured policewoman became flown by a rescue helicopter in a hospital.
Senator of internal affairs Frank Henkel of Berlin (CDU) spoke of a "dramatic incident" and added in the afternoon: "At the moment my thoughts turn exclusively on the fact that a policewoman has become seriously injured in use application. I hope that she becomes healthy again, and wishes her for it all strength. "