A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for killing three people in an Islamist-motivated knife attack at a summer festival in the German city of Solingen last year.

The court in Duesseldorf said Issa Al Hasan, 27, was a member of the Islamic State militant group and had acted out of “treacherous and base motives”.

The knife attack in August 2024, in which another eight people were seriously wounded, took place on the opening night of a three-day “festival of diversity”.

It was one of a series of attacks attributed to asylum seekers and migrants that pushed immigration to the top of the political agenda ahead of a general election in Germany early this year.

The presiding judge in Duesseldorf said Hasan had acted “on the basis of his radical Islamic beliefs”.

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