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2025 Aschaffenburg stabbing attack
On 22 January 2025, a mass stabbing took place at a park in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. 28-year-old Enamullah Omarzai killed two people and wounded three.
Omarzai, an Afghan asylum seeker, was wanted after failing to serve a prison term and had been obligated to leave the country since December 2024. Omarzai was previously diagnosed with schizophrenia and in October 2025, Aschaffenburg court ordered for indefinite involuntary commitment.
The stabbing, along with the car-ramming attack in Munich the following month, contributed significantly to the renewed discussion about immigration policy, particularly deportation of denied asylum seekers, ahead of Germany's snap election in February. The new government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz increased deportations of criminal asylum seekers in part due to the attack.
The perpetrator entered the Schöntal Park at around 11:30 local time. Inside the park, he followed a kindergarten group, consisting of two female teachers and five children, for fifteen minutes. At 11:45, the perpetrator allegedly ran past the teachers to attack two toddlers who sat inside a toy wagon, pulling off the hat and scarf of a two-year-old Moroccan boy before stabbing him and a two-year-old Syrian girl. The boy died after suffering seven stab wounds while the girl survived with critical injuries.
A 59-year-old teacher tried to save the children, but she was pushed by the knifeman, breaking her hand. Two male passersby pulled the perpetrator away from the children, leading to a prolonged struggle during which the teachers and the remaining children escaped the scene. The attacker stabbed both men in the back and flank, killing a 41-year-old man and injuring a 72-year-old man, both of whom were German citizens.
Other passersby, three of whom were armed with pitchforks, chased after the attacker as he fled. Up to fifty people who saw the attacker participated in the search, with two calling the police mid-pursuit. He was then arrested by police two kilometres from the crime scene, outside a train tunnel of the Main Valley Railway near Wilhelm-Hoegner-Anlage, twelve minutes later.
The suspect was identified as Enamullah Omarzai (Pashto: إنعام الله عمرزی), born in 1997 in Kunduz, Afghanistan. He arrived in Bulgaria from Turkey in early 2022 and spent some time in France before illegally moving to Germany in November 2022. Four months later he requested the right of asylum. It was however refused in June 2023, with the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees ordering a repatriation to Bulgaria.
At the time of the stabbing, Omarzai had 18 criminal proceedings against him. His criminal record in Germany consisted of serious bodily harm, assault, and falsifying a public transport ticket. For his first offence in March 2023, a physical fight at a refugee centre in Schweinfurt, he was sentenced to a fine of €800, which he ultimately did not pay.
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2025 Aschaffenburg stabbing attack
On 22 January 2025, a mass stabbing took place at a park in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. 28-year-old Enamullah Omarzai killed two people and wounded three.
Omarzai, an Afghan asylum seeker, was wanted after failing to serve a prison term and had been obligated to leave the country since December 2024. Omarzai was previously diagnosed with schizophrenia and in October 2025, Aschaffenburg court ordered for indefinite involuntary commitment.
The stabbing, along with the car-ramming attack in Munich the following month, contributed significantly to the renewed discussion about immigration policy, particularly deportation of denied asylum seekers, ahead of Germany's snap election in February. The new government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz increased deportations of criminal asylum seekers in part due to the attack.
The perpetrator entered the Schöntal Park at around 11:30 local time. Inside the park, he followed a kindergarten group, consisting of two female teachers and five children, for fifteen minutes. At 11:45, the perpetrator allegedly ran past the teachers to attack two toddlers who sat inside a toy wagon, pulling off the hat and scarf of a two-year-old Moroccan boy before stabbing him and a two-year-old Syrian girl. The boy died after suffering seven stab wounds while the girl survived with critical injuries.
A 59-year-old teacher tried to save the children, but she was pushed by the knifeman, breaking her hand. Two male passersby pulled the perpetrator away from the children, leading to a prolonged struggle during which the teachers and the remaining children escaped the scene. The attacker stabbed both men in the back and flank, killing a 41-year-old man and injuring a 72-year-old man, both of whom were German citizens.
Other passersby, three of whom were armed with pitchforks, chased after the attacker as he fled. Up to fifty people who saw the attacker participated in the search, with two calling the police mid-pursuit. He was then arrested by police two kilometres from the crime scene, outside a train tunnel of the Main Valley Railway near Wilhelm-Hoegner-Anlage, twelve minutes later.
The suspect was identified as Enamullah Omarzai (Pashto: إنعام الله عمرزی), born in 1997 in Kunduz, Afghanistan. He arrived in Bulgaria from Turkey in early 2022 and spent some time in France before illegally moving to Germany in November 2022. Four months later he requested the right of asylum. It was however refused in June 2023, with the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees ordering a repatriation to Bulgaria.
At the time of the stabbing, Omarzai had 18 criminal proceedings against him. His criminal record in Germany consisted of serious bodily harm, assault, and falsifying a public transport ticket. For his first offence in March 2023, a physical fight at a refugee centre in Schweinfurt, he was sentenced to a fine of €800, which he ultimately did not pay.
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