2020 Dresden stabbing
| 2020 Dresden knife attack | |
|---|---|
| Location | Dresden, Germany |
| Date | 4 October 2020 |
| Target | Gay couple |
Attack type | Stabbing |
| Weapons | Knife |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Motive | Islamic extremism and homophobia |
| Accused | Abdullah al-H. H. |
On 4 October 2020, a man was killed and another injured during a knife attack in Dresden, Germany. After two weeks, the 20-years-old perpetrator was arrested, Abdullah al-H. H. - a Syrian national who had arrived in Germany in 2015 to seek asylum. He had been sentenced in November 2018 to two years and nine months imprisonment for supporting a terrorist organization and planning an attack with contacts with a militant in Yemen and working on the construction of suicide belts. He had been released from prison in September 2020. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism.