Flera personer har knivhuggits i Åbo-allmänheten ombeds undvika centrum (2017-08-18)

Källor till den finska tidningen Turun Sanomat pekar ut Abdul Rahman, asylsökande från Marocko, som den misstänkte gärningsmannen bakom knivdådet i fredags.
Han greps av polisen bara minuter efter attacken, efter att blivit skjuten i benet.

Abdul Rahman kom till Finland som asylsökande förra året. Han bodde på ett flyktingcenter och har ofta setts ute i området av andra som bor där.
– Han verkade väldigt ensam, han gick ofta själv, säger en person som vill vara anonym till Turun Sanomat.
Abdul Rahman beskrivs som en person som befann sig i sin egen värld och inte umgicks med andra.
– Han verkade isolerad och på ett sätt deprimerad. Det var som om någon hade tagit något ifrån honom.

Enligt polisen var gärningsmannen ute efter att skada kvinnor.

Rashidi ei ymmärrä arabiaa mutta oli erottavinaan puukottajan huutelusta Allahin.

Puukottaja huusi kovaa.

Hän käveli meitä kohti kädet levällään ja huusi Allahia. Luulin aluksi, että hänellä saattaa olla pommi, mutta sitten huomasi että hänen toisessa kädessään oli verinen puukko.

The eyewitness report by Arya Rashid, who is interviewed by the Finnish newspaper magazine, however, describes well how fast the events went on in the market.

At about 16 o'clock, Rashidi was parking a vanset in the box reserved for toremen, next to his employer's truck.

There was a cry out there.

Rashidi stopped leaning over the window, looking at the window. A woman lay on the ground. Next to him was an estimated 175-centimeter green-eyed man.

A white-haired man ran for a green-haired man. The green knuckle struck the white collar with a knife.

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RASHIDI jumped from the car. Sales in the torch lines continued like nothing.

Rashidi did not understand Arabic, but was distinguished from the shouting of a woodcutter to Allah.

The woodcutter shouted loudly. It seemed very restless, confused. He turned his head constantly, glared at the back and sides.

Something's happening now, Rashidi cried to his co-workers.

Some started to throw chairs down the stairwell. The knife was clearly visible when a dark-haired man ran away from the torsion bushes. In addition to that she was wearing a brown backpack.

From the kitchen knife it looked, wide and wide.

At the edge of Hesburger, on the edge of the Market Square, a man grabbed a walk behind a woman from behind. Dropped at the throat. The woman fell to the ground.

The man continued to strike, five to six times, Rashidi is not sure, everything happened so fast. She remembers that the woman had strollers.

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EVERY man tried to tear the stapler off.

There is an immigrant background, otherwise Rashidi can not describe.

The woodcutter left, came back. Ian man in the upper body.

Rashidi and the other torimite went running for the woodcutter. The man went out to escape, Merchant Street in the direction of Kinopalat.

On the guard track, Rashidi passed by an unknown man with a baseball bat in hand. Silver-colored.

She cried out to give this to me, and I'm trying to catch her.

The man ran hard. "All right."
THREE men were in the back riding, unknown to each other.

They cried all the time to be careful, beware, waive. The banners are part of a video shot from the window, widely distributed in the media.

According to Rashid, the woodcutter also cried, again Allah to Arab, but eyewitness statements are contradictory.

The man ran hard. "It's a pervert." He turned to Maariankatu in the direction of Puutori.

Rashidi and the other two came in so much that when they turned from the corner, the next victim was on the road. She's a woman, too. The woodcutter was again in the bonnet of a single, older woman. You've got to hit.

The selection did not seem to be any plan. It was impossible to say whether it was intended to kill only women. The man struck anyone in front of him, it seemed to him.

The police industry drove past. Shoot at the same time. He attacked to lie down. The head of the woodcutter was sideways in the street, two police officers on the ground.

Rashid ran alongside, did not think for one second. He hit a man in a baseball bat as hard as he could. On.

A few others kicked.

The police cried back. Another patrol arrived, then the third one

Missiaunotar in the middle of the Turku invasion: "The man who carried the beard of a knife cried to Allah"
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Then a young woman had to face the attacker himself.

- He walked us toward his arms and cried to Allah. I thought at first that he might have a bomb, but then he noticed that his other hand was a bloody knife.

Missikaunotar says that the attacker was clearly foreign-based, but the biggest heroes were also foreign-based men.

- A foreign-born male trio resisted the woodcutter. So that one of them had also got a knife.

- The woodman started running and some went after him. One had found a rod like some iron rod. That stranger man who resisted the woodcutter was sitting down and saw that he was really a good blood from the shoulder area.

However, the goalkeeper did not focus on escaping but continued his attack elsewhere.

- I heard the cry, "now she stabbed the woman with the prams." That stabbed woman had fallen to the ground.

At the same time, there were alarm vehicles on the market.

- The situation was chaotic and there was a lot of scream everywhere. People were weeping.