A 36-year-old Nigerian man accused of stabbing three police officers in a span of 16 hours in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany will be arraigned for attempted manslaughter and various other crimes.
The suspect identified simply as Wisdom .O, lives at an asylum home in Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to reports, the man lived in Italy for several years before moving to Germany.
The trial began on Monday, February 3, 2025.
The public prosecutor says that the man wanted to k!ll officers on a night train last year.
On July 5, 2024, the migrant received €200 as a gift from his sister, which he used to buy crack at Karlsruhe Central Station in Baden-Württemberg, located in southwest Germany.
At 12:45 p.m., he then proceeded to smoke the drug and allegedly grabbed a child’s shoulder violently.
Wisdom was then ordered out of the area by the police, but he refused to go, according to BildNewpaper.
Police intervened to save the boy, and the Nigerian man bit one of the officers, while three police suffered abrasions during the scuffle.
Then, 13 hours later, the same man wanted to travel without a ticket and got on a night train at 1:50 a.m. When police officers confronted him over his illegal action, the situation quickly escalated.
“The man put up considerable resistance and repeatedly st@bbed the officers from behind with the blade of a cutter knife,” said a police spokeswoman.
One of the officers was stabbed in the head, arm and hand, while another officer was cut on his leg.
Both police officers were treated in the hospital and are unable to work while they recover from their injuries.
Despite attempts to charge the man, the public prosecutor released the Nigerian.
He immediately went back to riding the train without purchasing a ticket, and on Saturday at 7 a.m., a police spokeswoman described how he once again attacked a federal police officer when he was stopped.
The police said during the police check, the Nigerian suddenly attacked a federal police officer, grabbing him by the arm.
“The suspect was brought to the ground and temporarily arrested,” the officer said.
The man was simply released by a public prosecutor even after the officers applied for an arrest warrant twice. Both requests were rejected for unknown reasons.
Four days later, Wisdom O. was arrested in Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia based on an arrest warrant.
In court, Wisdom O. said: “I have not committed any crimes.”
He also claimed he was only trying to clean his fingernails with a knife on the train.
When asked how the officers were cut, he told the court: “Maybe that happened when they tried to take the blade away from me.”
