Friday August 17, 2018
Police have identified the suspect as a 26-year-old man from Somalia. The city of Offenburg only has 60,000 people, but is regarded as a crime hotspot.
A doctor was stabbed to death in his own practice on Thursday in a
seemingly unprovoked attack in the south-western German city of
Offenburg.
A 26-year-old man allegedly entered the surgery without an appointment and attacked the doctor and an assistant. The assistant was injured during the early morning attack.
Police identified the suspect as a man from Somalia. They said he left the knife behind at the scene.
The city of 60,000 is considered a crime hotspot in the state of Baden-Württemberg .
Violence in medical practices has occurred several times in Germany in recent years. In 2016 a pensioner shot an orthodontist in a Berlin clinic. And in 2015, a 44-year-old man killed his psychiatrist with eight shots in a Saarbrücken practice.