Two Injured Die in Mass Car Attack in Munich, Germany
Overview of the vehicle that has run over a demonstration in Munich on Thursday. the mass car crash is being investigated as a possible attack has left at least 28 injured, some of them serious, in the German city of Munich. Photo: EFE/ Ronald Wittek
February 15, 2025 Hour: 3:26 pm
A two-year-old girl and her 37-year-old mother died on Saturday from injuries sustained in the mass car crash that occurred on Thursday in Munich, southern Germany, which authorities are investigating as a possible attack.
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According to the regional broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, which quoted the Regional Criminal Investigation Office (LK), of the 39 injuries that had been counted, mother and daughter were the only ones in critical condition following the Also left eight seriously injured and ten of moderate severity.
Shortly before the news broke, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had gone to lay flowers at the scene, where he made a call for national unity and urged that the perpetrators of such acts be punished with “the full force of the law.”
“It is a cause for grief and something that teaches us to do everything in our power to prevent this kind of incident,” the chancellor stated regarding the mass attack, the second of its kind in two months after the one in Magdeburg, which resulted in six deaths and several hundred injuries on December 20.
The Attorney General’s office took over the investigation on Friday after police found evidence suggesting a possible terrorist motive.
The perpetrator, a 24-year-old Afghan citizen, who was arrested at the time, admitted during interrogation that he had deliberately driven into the demonstration of public employees organized by the Verdi union, offering a “religious explanation” for his actions, according to investigators who spoke at a press conference in Munich on Friday.
The detainee was legally in Germany, although his asylum application had been rejected in 2016, and he had no criminal record, but according to some media reports he suffered from hallucinations and had behaved in a conspicuous way recently.
Last month, another Afghan citizen was arrested as a suspect in a knife attack in Aschaffenburg-like Munich in southern Bavaria-where a two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man who came to help him were killed
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: EFE
