Germany attack: 'Lone wolf' activities increase in Europe?

The attack on a passenger train in Germany has raised concerns about “lone wolf” attacks in Europe.

German police on July 18 shot dead a young Afghan refugee after he attacked passengers on a train with an axe and a knife, injuring several people. This is the latest disturbance involving refugees in Germany.

Police at the scene of the attack. (Photo: BBC)

Three people were seriously injured in the attack on a train traveling from Treuchlingen to Wuerzburg in Bavaria. The attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan boy living in Ochsenfurt, police said.

There are no details about the suspect's death and police have refused to reveal the motive for the attack. However, according to the head of the Bavarian Interior Ministry, Mr. Gerhard Eck, this could be an "Islamic attack" because the suspect shouted Allahu akbar (God is great).

“I don’t want to go into details about this case because we are still investigating,” said Gerhard Eck. “The suspect is a 17-year-old Afghan boy. I don’t know how long he has been in Germany. We are in contact with the family that hosted him to find out the motive for the crime.”

This is the latest disturbance involving refugees in Germany. The incident occurred just days after a Tunisian man living in France drove a truck into a crowd in the southern French city of Nice, killing at least 84 people and injuring about 100.

This latest attack in Germany has further raised concerns about “lone wolf” attacks in Europe, and put great pressure on the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the country’s refugee acceptance policy.

Earlier, in the first days of the new year 2016, Germany was shocked by a series of sexual assaults on women in the city of Cologne. Hundreds of women in Cologne reported being molested, attacked and robbed outside the train station on New Year's Eve.

For many Germans, attacks, robberies and sexual harassment against women are shocking, especially when the perpetrators are refugees from the Middle East and North Africa that they are taking care of.

In the first 6 months of this year alone, more than 222,000 people came to Germany to seek asylum, including 75,000 Syrians, 39,000 Afghans and 38,000 people from Iraq./.

According to VOV