Knife stabbing in Schwabing: perpetrators and victims are silent!

Knife stabbing in Schwabing: perpetrators and victims are silent!

A quiet evening in Munich recently turned into a chaos when the police were called for a violent argument on a supermarket place in Schwabing. On Saturday evening at around 6.30 p.m., several people alerted the emergency services because of a physical argument in the parking lot on Lerchenauer Straße / Schleißheimer Straße. When they arrived, the officials found that four men were involved in the incident, including a 23-year-old without a permanent residence in Germany and a 24-year-old from the Miesbach district. During the argument, the 23-year-old is said to have attacked the 24-year-old with a knife-like object, which inflicted several bleeding injuries in the abdominal area. He was immediately taken to a hospital with the emergency services, reports the evening newspaper.

another violent crime in Munich

only a little later, on Monday evening, there was another frightening incident in a supermarket in the subdentling. A 31-year-old woman was shot by police officers after threatening with a knife. The incident began when a witness reported a bodily harm between several people on Goetheplatz.

The suspect fled to the supermarket, where it was discovered by the emergency services. When the police spoke to her, the woman suddenly pulled a knife and directed it against the officials. In response to the threat, the police initially used pepper spray before ultimately giving up four shots that the woman met several times. It is tragic that the 31-year-old died at the scene. The investigation by the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and the public prosecutor's office ran to check the legality of the mission.

The terrifying increase in knife attacks

These incidents are part of a greater development in Germany that is worrying. According to the publication of Statista on the police, knife attacks in Germany between 2022 and 2024 is an increasing trend. The figures make it clear that knife attacks in urban areas such as Munich are increasingly occurring. A growing social debate deals with the causes and the measures to combat them. It is clear that there is a lot going on.

The police will continue to investigate intensively in order to clarify the background of both incidents. However, while the authorities do their work, the population remains called up in a time growing uncertainty to be careful when it moves in urban space.

Details of the incidents in Schwabing and the subdentling can be found in the articles of the Stern , while you are further information about the statistical development of the knife attacks on Statista