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In the years 2015 and 2016, when refugees in their millions were fleeing the Alawaite Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime's murderous attacks against its Sunni Syrian citizens, many desperate to reach Europe to find haven there rather than in the vast holding camps of Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, and others from Africa and other places of the Middle East sought the opportunity to flock to Europe, declaring themselves refugees fleeing oppression, conflict, and deprivation as refuge-seeking migrants.

 

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel made international headlines by declaring Germany's intention to absorb a million refugees; 500,000 in 2015 and about 750,000 the following year. That the majority of those flooding into Germany were young, single males and their presence began presenting a problem reflecting cultural, social and political values caused great strain within Germany's native German Christian population, the influx giving the country a total of six million Muslims, mostly of Turkish-worker origins among whom Turkish President Erdogan held sway, interfering in German autonomy. 

 

While the original German population might at first blush felt positive about their chancellor's declaration, once the refugees settled in in their great numbers and their cultural/religious values clashed with that of German heritage, culture and social mores, public ingratitude at the sea change forced on them by the great refugee influx gave rise to the presence of more conservative movements within German politics. The latest incident that took place in the ancient city with its 130,000 population somewhat predictable.

 

Mental illness is often ascribed to Islamist fundamentalists whose psychopathy and hatred for the West even while advantaging themselves by the largess of Western social programs benefiting the poor and socially deprived, excusing violent excesses that occasionally erupt among the newly displaced. Videos that were posted on social media show a barefoot man with a long knife warded off in self-defence by other men shielding themselves with chairs until police arrived.

Wuerzburg's central Barbarossaplatz was the scene of crime where three people were killed and five others seriously wounded when a 24-year-old Somali immigrant went on a knifing rampage. He was eventually stopped when police fired a bullet through his thigh to enable them to arrest his activities. A man who had been resident since 2015 in the town, since Germany opened its borders to over a million refugees and migrants. He had a police record, but evidently not for terrorist links.

One of the dead was a young boy along with one of his parents. People were assured by police that there did not appear to be any other attackers in association with the arrested man. They also reported that of the five seriously injured people, there were some who might not survive their injuries. Five years earlier the city, about an hour's drive from Frankfurt, had seen a knife attack on a train by a 17-year-old Pakistani asylum seeker who wounded five people, two seriously, before he was stopped.