At about 3 p.m. on 25 January 2023, the perpetrator stabbed nine people on a moving passenger train in Brokstedt, Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, in Northern Germany.
[1] Sabine Sütterlin-Waack, the interior minister of Schleswig-Holstein, announced the suspect in custody to be a 33-year-old stateless man named Ibrahim A. from the Palestinian territories.
The charges listed included theft, fraud, dangerous bodily harm, drugs, sexual harassment, damage to property, child abuse, rape of persons unfit to resist, driving without a license, and trespassing.
On 18 August 2022, the St. Georg Local Court of Hamburg sentenced him to one year and one week imprisonment for dangerous bodily harm and theft.
On 19 January 2023, he had to be released, as he had completed serving his one-year sentence, and a decision on appeal was not expected in the foreseeable future.
A prison officer noticed on 6 August 2022 that Ibrahim A. was talking to himself, repeating the phrase, 'Big car, Berlin, the truth.'
[11][12] He was sentenced to life in prison by judge Johann Lohmann[13] from the Itzehoe district court on 15 April 2024.
[11] On 22 February 2023, the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag deliberated a proposal Lessons from the Brockstedt case: Improving communication with the authorities and establishing consistent deportation.