{"id":375594,"date":"2025-08-26T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375594\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:25:09","slug":"afghan-charged-over-munich-car-ramming-attack-that-killed-two-and-injured-44-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375594\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan charged over Munich car ramming attack that killed two and injured 44 \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities in Germany have announced murder charges against an Afghan man accused of killing two people and injuring 44 in a car ramming in Munich in February that prosecutors say was motivated by a desire to avenge suffering of Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man, an Afghan national identified only as Farhad N in line with German privacy rules, was arrested immediately after the attack during a labour union demonstration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He came to Germany as an asylum seeker and was 24 years old at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Federal prosecutors said in a statement that on the morning of February 13, the suspect \u201cdeliberately drove his car\u201d into the union event in central Munich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The car ramming fatally injured two people, a two-year-old girl and her 37-year-old mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forty-four other people suffered life-threatening or serious injuries, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe accused committed the act out of excessive religious motivation,\u201d they said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe believed he was obliged to attack and kill randomly selected people in Germany in response to the suffering of Muslims in Islamic countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the fifth in a series of attacks involving immigrants over a period of nine months that pushed migration to the forefront of the past year\u2019s campaign for Germany\u2019s election on February 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Germany have announced murder charges against an Afghan man accused of killing two people and injuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,522,16760,131228],"class_list":{"0":"post-375594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-munich","13":"tag-munich-car-ramming-attack"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115096474416600995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}