German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during a commemoration service for the victims of a knife attack that killed three people last week, in Solingen, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, recently proposed toughening weapons laws to allow only knives with a blade measuring up to about 2.4 inches, to be carried in ...

Solingen is also known as the 'City of Blades', as it has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by famous firms.

The German government is taking action in response to the fatal knife attack in Solingen, banning knives in public places and putting pressure on rejected asylum seekers and criminal offenders.

SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Solingen, Germany that killed three people and wounded eight others at a crowded festival ...

Shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Friday, the attacker started stabbing people who had gathered at the festival to celebrate the 650th anniversary of Solingen — a city famous for the knives and ...

German DJ Topic said in his statement on Instagram that continuing to play was 'incredibly hard' but he did so until the 'music stopped 10 or 15 minutes later.

05/26/2025 May 26, 2025. The trial of a Syrian man accused of killing three people in a knife attack in the western city of Solingen last August has brought Germany's asylum policies and security ...

German leaders have paid tribute to the three people killed in the Aug. 23 knife attack by a suspected Islamic extremist that has pushed immigration back to the top of the country’s political agenda ...

Germany’s leaders pay tribute to victims of ... people also were wounded in the attack at a “Festival of Diversity” marking the 650th anniversary of the city of Solingen, in western Germany.