Machete-Wielding Syrians Arrested After Deadly Hamburg Attack
16th April 2025
Four Syrian suspects were arrested in the German city of Hamburg and reportedly charged with attempted grievous bodily harm resulting in death, earlier this week. The suspected perpetrators, aged 16 to 20, entered an eighth-floor apartment while wielding machetes and attacked a group of young Iraqis there.
While it remains unclear whether the deceased—an Iraqi national—was pushed from the height or fell while escaping, it adds to a long list of problems associated with the high-rise complex on Soltauer Ring. Police are still trying to establish a motive for the attack, describing the three other Iraqi survivors as “uninjured.”