2016 Munich knife attack

On 10 May 2016, a mass stabbing occurred at the train station of Grafing, a suburb of Munich, Germany. One person was killed and three others injured. The perpetrator, a 27-year-old German man, was arrested. In August 2017, the Landgericht München II ruled the man to not be criminally liable of the crime and committed him to a closed psychiatric ward.

The case briefly gained international attention as a potential terrorist attack, as the perpetrator had shouted "Allahu Akbar", although it was later revealed that he had no Islamist background and an extensive record for mental illness. Although German media reported that there was no evidence for a political or religious motive hours after the stabbing, misinformation spread on social media. The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party accused police of a cover-up and falsely attributed the stabbing to a convicted Islamist who had died the previous year.