GERMAN cops have named the man suspected of unleashing a horror knife rampage at a festival which killed three people and injured eight more.
They believe Syrian man Issa Al H is behind the gruesome attack and said he is a “a member of a terrorist organisation abroad”, adding that he shares the “ideology of Islamic State”.
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Issa, 26, has been charged with three counts of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm in eight cases.
Pictures showed a man thought to be him flanked by armed cops as he was led away barefoot and with goggles and headphones on.
Cops said they took the person suspected of the stabbing attack into custody on Saturday night after he turned himself in “covered in blood”.
Armed cops launched a manhunt for the perpetrator after festival-goers were stabbed at random in western Germany on Friday.
A woman, 56, and two men, 56 and 57, died after the attack in Solingen.
The suspect’s clothes were dirty and covered in blood when he turned himself, according to unnamed security sources in the German outlet Der Spiegel.
The knifeman approached officers shortly after 11pm, BILD reported.
He reportedly said: “I am the one you are looking for.”
It comes as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the knife attack.
The militant group said in a statement on its Telegram account that the attack was carried out by one of its members.
It is still unclear what relationship the attacker had with ISIS.
Issa had applied for asylum before the knife rampage on Friday.
Meanwhile, the German cops had also made a second arrest – a 15-year-old boy – while investigating the horror incident.
Investigators told a press conference that the boy had been arrested for failing to tell cops he was told of an imminent attack by the knifeman in the hours before the rampage.
Two witnesses claimed to have seen the teen speaking to the perpetrator.
They allegedly heard the unknown knifeman say to the 15-year-old: “Today I’m going to stab everyone.”
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STABBING RAMPAGE
The three-day “Festival of Diversity” was being held to mark the 650th anniversary of the founding of the city, which has about 160,000 inhabitants and is located near the bigger cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf.
Around 80,000 visitors were expected to attend the event, which has now been cancelled.
But at 9.37 pm the knifeman launched his savage attack at random – aiming at his victims’ necks as he went.
Eight more people were injured with four of them fighting for their lives after the suspect knifed the victims as they watched live music.
The suspect is said to have attacked the festivalgoers directly in front of the stage where live bands were playing.
The DJ who was playing his set while the terror unfolded revealed he was told to keep playing amid the anarchy by German authorities to avoid “mass panic”.
In an Instagram post, DJ Topic claimed he had to push through an extra 10-15 minutes before music was stopped and the crowd was told what was going on.
He wrote: “Today I played at the 650-year anniversary of my hometown Solingen in Germany, and during my set, security personnel from the city came to me and asked me to please continue playing to avoid a mass panic.
“There were already people killed by a stabbing attacker. So I kept playing, even though it was incredibly hard.
“After about 10-15 minutes, the music was finally stopped, and the people were informed about the incident.”
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