Police arrested asylum seekers in Afghanistan on Thursday morning after ploughing cars into a Munich crowd and injuring at least 28 people, including children. Police say the 24-year-old, who recently refused his asylum application, drove the white mini-cooper to demonstrate the approximately 1,000 city union workers who were on a strike around 10:30am.
Among the injured were a two-year-old child. hospitalization In a dangerous situation.
“Doctors are currently fighting for the lives of young children,” a spokesman for von Horner Children's Hospital said.
Authorities said the suspect first approached the police vehicle before accelerating him. vehicle To the crowd of demonstrators. Police arrested the man after firing a shot of the car. New York Post Report.
“He approached the rally from behind and ran into the crowd. The police shot the vehicle,” police chief Christian Hoover said.
“It's suspected that this is an attack, and it points to a lot,” Bavarian governor Marcus Söder said on the scene.
He said, “The attack shows that I have to change something In Germany – and soon. ”
According to Joachim Herman, Bavarian state internal minister, local police officers knew the suspect in light of past theft and drug crimes.
Halman pointed out that the suspicious perp had been applied in his asylum order, but it was impossible for him to bE deported.
According to a German news outlet, exxpressThe driver was identified as Farhad N., born in Kabul in 2001, and came to Germany via Italy as a minor at the end of 2016. I'm suspicious Police say they have a militant background, including posting Islamic content before Thursday's incident.
Despite the rejection of the asylum application, Farhad I was given tolerancethat means He could not be deported.
Prime Minister Olaf Scholz, who described the ordeal as a “terrorist attack,” stated, “Everyone who commits a crime in Germany will be severely punished and will have to go to prison, but hopes that he will not be able to continue staying in Germany. He said it must. That also applies to the country. Very difficult To send people back. ”
Incident come A gathering of world leaders the day before the 61st Munich Security Conference In Discuss the challenges of global security policy from February 14th to February 16th. Vice President JDVance is scheduled to meet with Ukrainians president Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.
“This morning we were deeply saddened to learn that a tragic incident occurred in downtown Munich and that a car was rushed into a crowd of people. Our thoughts were the victims and their families. It's with that.” I wrote it x according to the incident.
We were deeply saddened to learn that a tragic incident had happened this morning. #munich The city centre where the car drove into the crowd. Our idea lies with the victims and their families. Emergency services are on site and investigations are underway…
– Munich Security Conference (@munsecconf) February 13, 2025
According to Hermann, that I don't believe it at first attack tied up To the meeting.
This incident also comes before the German federal elections. February 23rdwhich has raised issues of immigration and security from other violent incidents in recent weeks, with polls showing that conservatives on the right in the center continue on the far right.
As reported by Reutersimmigrants have Arrested Last December, the killing of a Christmas market in Magdeburg and infants and adults last Knife attack moon in the Bavarian town of Asabhenburg.
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It was originally published on February 13th, 2025.
