A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing three people and wounding eight in an Islamist-motivated stabbing spree at a summer festival in Germany last year.

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

The knife attack took place on the opening night of a three-day “festival of diversity” in August 2024 that was part of 650th birthday festivities of the western city of Solingen.

Officials said after the attack that two men aged 56 and 67 and a 56-year-old woman were killed by being stabbed in the neck.

Hasan, who had been slated for deportation, initially got away but was arrested the following day at a hostel for asylum seekers not far from the scene.

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