Neu-Ulm - attack on the mayor of New Ulm! Gerold Noerenberg (CSU) has been attacked on Friday Inhis office and injured. The attacker was arrested, the Prosecutor's request for Memmingen put warrant.
The police did not officially confirm the names. According to dpa information is living in New Ulm al-Masri (46). The German citizen was kidnapped in 2004 by U.S. intelligence in Afghanistan and there have been imprisoned for almost six months.
Police said the attacker had tried in Neu-Ulm 30 minutes vorden attack ever to get access to the OB. It was zuAuseinandersetzungen come with municipal employees. He got sent off forthe City Hall.
Then he had initially removed, but was zurückgekehrtund directly to the Office of the Oberbürgermeisterseingedrungen. Noerenberg kurzmedizinisch had to be dealt with, he's now good again. About the motive eszunächst gave no details.
According to El Masri's return from Afghanistan to Germany dieMünchner prosecutor had issued for kidnapping several Haftbefehlegegen CIA agents. El Masri's efforts to clarify the circumstances seinerEntführung before a U.S. court, were 2007endgültig failed in October.
Meanwhile, the German-Lebanese man had in January 2007 Neu-Ulm Wholesale located in a fire. Following his arrest, al-Masri had been admitted ina psychiatric hospital. The end of 2007, he was verurteiltworden dannwegen arson to two years probation. An expert had told him in court for culpable.
