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A 41-year-old Iraqi was killed by German police in Berlin after stabbing a police injured. The event took place in the Spandau district. As reported police suspected attacker Rafik Youssef Mohammed as an extremist in the past and was sentenced to prison.
In Thursday's incident, the police of the German capital was announced through numerous phone calls that a man was behaving like mad threatening passers-by with a knife. When police approached, he wounded with a knife in the neck. Her colleagues immediately opened fire, killing the aggressor.
One of four bullets hit the kidney the policewoman, who was transported to hospital by helicopter and is now thought to be out of danger. Prosecution spokesman said 41-year-old was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2008 for his role in a plan for the assassination of former Iraqi President Ayad Allawi.
They were sentenced with the two others. They were accused of belonging to a foreign terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam and conspiracy to commit a murder.
Finally, the man had threatened a judge and was considered quite aggressive.
The motives of the attack that took place in Berlin are not yet known. Interior Minister Frank Henkel said that it is not a deliberate act, but he did not rule out religious motives. Research will be held at the residence of the aggressor to find clues to possible terrorist plans