Munich car attack latest: Suspect named with at least 30 injured ahead of Zelensky’s visit for security conference

Farhad Noori confessed during questioning that he had deliberately driven into the demonstration, the senior public prosecutor said.

Police currently believe an Islamist motivation behind the attack is the most likely.

There is no suggestion that any accomplices were involved in the attack, authorities said.

But police are looking into whether anyone else knew about the attack.

German authorities are presuming that the Munich car attack was motivated by Islamist extremism.

But there is no reason to believe the perpetrator was a member of any Islamist organisation.

Islamist tendencies were visible in his communications.

Police have offered an update on their investigation into Farhad Noori, the driver of the Mini which drove into a crowd of demonstrators.

He said goodbye to his relatives before the car attack took place. “Tomorrow I won’t be here anymore,” he told family members.

Noori was interviewed for two hours, and police are looking through his electronics and phones. Most of his communication is in Arabic.

“We were not able to find anything in his apartment and we were not able to find anything that specifically pointed to preparations for this attack,” police said according to a Sky News translation.

A child was seriously injured in Thursday’s Munich car incident, believed to be an attack, police said in a Friday morning press conference.

A total of 36 people were injured in the attack, deputy police chief Christian Huber said.

On Friday morning, police in Munich reinstalled traffic measures around the site of Thursday’s suspected car attack.

It was unclear why the cordon was put back in place after they had lifted the cordon from the crime scene last night.

Police announced the scene was closed at around 9:30am, before it was reopened around 45 minutes later.

German authorities will give an update in a press conference later this morning.

It comes with the motive behind the attack still unclear. It is also unclear whether the detained suspect has been charged yet.

The conference will take place at 11am local time (10am GMT).

Soon after the crime, Bavarian interior minister told reporters that Farhad N, the man suspected of being behind the Munich incident, was known to police due to shoplifting and drug offences.

Later that evening, the police corrected this information, according to Der Spiegel.

Farhad N was reportedly only a witness to these proceedings, having previously worked as a store detective.

FC Bayern Munich has expressed its shock and devastation following the Munich car incident on Thursday, believed to be an attack.

In a post on X, the club said it was “shaken” after 30 were injured and expressed its “deepest sympathies” to those affected.

Herbert Hainer, the football club’s president, said: “Munich is our home city, and today our home was deeply shocked. The thoughts of the FC Bayern family are with those affected and their loved ones.

“We sincerely wish them all a speedy recovery and that the number of injured does not rise.”

Police in Germany have arrested an Afghan migrant after a car drove into a union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 30 people, including children. Authorities said the incident was believed to be an attack.

At least two people were left fighting for their lives after the Mini Cooper was driven into a protest organised by trade union Verdi, attended by an estimated 2,500 strikers and supporters, including family members.

Detectives raided the home of the suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker, who is being questioned.

The general prosecutor’s office in Munich has identified him as Farhad Noori, according to the Reuters news agency. Born in Kabul in 2001, he first arrived in Germany from Afghanistan at the end of 2016, Der Spiegel reported.