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The Afghan arrested on suspicion of driving in a bunch of people in Munich, injured 36, admitted that he had performed the attack and seemed to have had religious motivation, prosecutors say.
Munich public prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann told reporters that the suspect had told “Allah Akbar” (God the greatest) in Arabic when he was detained, and described the attack as “Islamistly motivated.”
A two -year -old girl is among two people who were critically injured on Thursday in an attack near Munich Station. She is in intensive care.
Eight more people were seriously injured. Updating the victims’ details, police said 32 men and four women.
On Thursday, it was quite at the heart of Munich 10 days before the Germans went to the polls in the federal elections shaded by a series of earlier attacks performed by immigrants. Two alleged attackers arrived from Afghanistan.
As the snow fell in Munich on Friday, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the position of Attack and said “the brutality of this act upset us and leaves us astonished.”
Police chief Guido Limmer said the suspect in Munich, was identified as Farhad N, who is 24 years old, was questioned two hours after the attack.
During the interrogation, he told the police that he had deliberately inserted his mini cooper car into the crowd, who at the time participated in the union protest.
Farhad n should appear in court on Friday afternoon. He had no previous criminal complaint, and police said there was no evidence of a jihadist group link. He also seems to have been acting alone, police say.
He arrived in Germany in 2016, and although his application for asylum was rejected, he was allowed to stay in Germany and had a valid residence and work permit.
The Munich Prosecutor confirmed to reporters that Farhad n legally lives in Germany.
The attack occurred on the eve of the safety conference in Munich. After arriving in the city on Friday, US Vice President JD Vance expressed condolences to 36 people injured in the attack.
The authorities initially suggested that the suspect was convicted of theft, but the Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann later explained that he had worked as a detective of trade and that he appeared as a witness in the purchase trials, not as an alleged offender.
