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VIFGRA/Paul/EPA-EFEAn Afghan man arrested on suspicion of driving a crowd of people in Munich, suffering 36, admitted that he had an attack and seems to have religious motivation, prosecutors say.
The Munich Prosecutor Gabriel Tilman told reporters that the suspect said that “Allah Akbar” (the greatest god) in Arabic when he was detained, and she suggested that “may have had Islamist motivation.”
The two -year -old girl is one of the two people who were hit by the Munich Central Station on Thursday. It is in intensive care.
Eight more people were seriously injured. Updating the details of the victims, the police said 32 men and four were women.
On Thursday, the car at the heart of Munich took place 10 days before the Germans were held in the election in the federal election, marked by a number of previous attacks conducted by immigrants. Two allegedly attackers came from Afghanistan.
When the snow fell into Munich on Friday, the President Frank-Wolter Steinmeier visited the scene and said that “the cruelty of this action saddens and leaves us stunned.”
Guida Limmer’s police chief said the suspect in Munich, identified as Farhad N, 24, was questioned two hours after the attack.
During the interrogation, he told the police that he was intentionally driving his Mini Cooper car who participated in a trade union protest.
Farhad N was supposed to appear in court on Friday afternoon. He did not have a preliminary conviction, and the police said there was no evidence of a link to the jihadist group. He also seems to have acted alone, the police say.
He arrived in Germany in 2016, and although his application for asylum was disabled, he was allowed to stay in Germany and had a real place of residence and work permits.
The Munich Prosecutor confirmed to reporters that Farhad n lived in Germany legally.
On the eve of the Security Conference, Munich was attacked. Upon arrival in the city on Friday, US Vice President JD Vance expressed condolences to 36 people victims.
Initially, the authorities suggested that the suspect had been convicted of theft, but Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim later said he had worked as a detective in the store and was witnessed in lawsuits, not as a criminal.
