The organisers covered up the attack while the Arab was stabbing: "We don't want to panic" Published 24 August 2024 at 10.20 UTRIKES During a gig at the Solingen Multicultural Festival, DJ Tobias Topic was asked to continue playing, despite the fact that an Arab with a knife was attacking the audience at the time. Share article Tweet Share During Tobias Topic's performance, a person came on stage and informed him that a knife attack had taken place, but asked him to continue playing anyway to avoid panic among the thousands of festival participants.

The perpetrator managed to kill three people and injure ten more, five of them seriously, before the music was finally shut down after about 20 minutes and visitors were finally informed of what had happened. The perpetrator managed to flee the scene, perhaps as a result of the organisers' cover-up, and an intense police hunt is still ongoing. The festival, which was due to continue over the weekend, has now been cancelled and large parts of Solingen are cordoned off. Helicopters are still searching for the suspected Arab.