A major German public broadcaster revealed that it had deliberately avoided mentioning the migrant background of a terrorist who killed two teenagers in order to prevent racism and ‘preserve democracy’. A 33-year-old asylum seeker was arrested last week after murdering a 17-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man during a frenzied knife attack on a regional train service near the town of Brokstedt... 

The alleged perpetrator of the fatal knife attack on a train near Brokstedt in Schleswig-Holstein was shortly before the incident on Wednesday at the immigration office in Kiel. The 33-year-old had applied for a residence permit, Schleswig-Holstein Interior Minister Sabine Sütterlin-Waack (CDU) told a special session of the state parliament on Thursday. From there it was sent to the registry office. The...