A Hamburg court has sentenced Ahmad Alhaw, a rejected asylum seeker and radicalized Islamist from the Palestinian Authority who murdered one person and wounded six others in a knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket in July to life in prison.
At the time of the attack, he was awaiting deportation but could not be deported as he lacked identification documents and was psychologically unstable. Hamburg's Interior Minister Andy Grote said after the attack that the stabber had been registered in intelligence systems as an Islamist but not a violent one as there was no evidence to link him to an imminent attack.