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 group and had acted out of “treacherous and base motives”.

The stabbing spree 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.

When prosecutors charged him in February, they said they believed Hasan had been in contact with representatives of th

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