One dead, six wounded in Germany supermarket knife attack

Germany has been on high alert about the threat of a jihadist attack since Amri’ s rampage in Berlin , for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility .
Jihadists have also carried out a string of random assaults in European countries using knives .
Like the Hamburg attacker, Amri was a failed asylum seeker who could not be deported for lack of documents.
The similarity between the two cases risks reopening barely healed wounds over Chancellor Angela Merkel’ s decision to allow more than million migrants into Germany since 2015 , with just two months to go until legislative elections in September.
“These criminals want to poison our free society with fear, but they will not succeed , ” mayor Scholz said.
Politicians were quick to jump on the attack, with the anti-migrant , anti-Islam and anti-European party AfD condemning the chancellor .
“Before Mrs Merkel tweets again that this is ‘ beyond comprehension’ : this has something to do with Islam . Comprehend that once and for all !”
An amateur mobile phone video published by news site Spiegel Online showed a handful of pursuers confronting the attacker, a bearded man wearing a t-shirt and jeans , amid dense city traffic.
They can be seen hurling chairs at him to keep him at a safe distance as he yells and brandishes the knife.
According to Spiegel Online , the 35 -year-old man injured during the struggle was the one who finally forced the suspect to the ground , using a pole .
The witnesses slightly hurt the attacker while they were overpowering him , before handing him over to police .
Newspaper Bild published images of the man lying handcuffed on the ground and sitting in the back seat of a police car, a bloodied white bag pulled over his head .