A man armed with a knife attacked a woman and a child in the area of the Katharinenschule in Esslingen am Neckar. The perpetrator is on the run, the police confirm. The motive for the crime is so far unknown.
A man attacked a woman and a child with a knife in the area of the Katharinenschule in Esslingen am Neckar on Friday. The motive for the crime is so far unknown. “The woman and the child are seriously injured and in a clinic,” said the spokesman for the Reutlingen police, Michael Schaal, to FOCUS Online. According to Schaal, the police received notification of the injuries at 8 a.m. on Friday morning. The child is a seven-year-old girl, reports the “Bild” newspaper.
According to the police, the alleged perpetrator has not yet been caught. It is also not excluded that he is still on the school grounds, according to the police. The SEK is in a large-scale operation. The police announced on Twitter that a helicopter was flying due to a police operation in the area. She also wrote: “Response to a bodily harm crime is currently underway.”
According to the spokesman, a motive for the crime was initially unknown. It is also unclear how the woman and the child and the perpetrator relate to each other.
Children are currently being cared for at school during the Baden-Württemberg Pentecost holidays. However, it is not yet known whether the two victims were attacked in or at the school in the morning and whether they belonged to holiday care, said the police spokesman. After the crime, the school was cordoned off and police officers searched the building.
The scene of the crime, the Katharinenschule, is an all-day school on the edge of Esslingen’s old town. Built in 1904 as a girls’ elementary school and temporarily converted into a military hospital during the Second World War, it has served as a school again since 1950. During school time, a total of 280 boys and girls are cared for in the three classes of the four grades.
