{"id":376768,"date":"2025-08-27T04:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376768\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:58:11","slug":"german-authorities-charge-afghan-suspect-in-munich-car-ramming-attack-that-killed-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376768\/","title":{"rendered":"German authorities charge Afghan suspect in Munich car ramming attack that killed two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Authorities in Germany announced murder charges against\u00a0a man on Tuesday, accused of killing two people and injuring 44 others\u00a0in a car-ramming in Munich in February that prosecutors say was motivated by a desire to avenge the suffering of Muslims.<\/p>\n

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

He came to Germany as an asylum seeker and was 24 years old at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors said in a statement that on the morning of 13 February, the suspect “deliberately drove his car” into the union event in downtown Munich.<\/p>\n

The car ramming fatally injured two people, a two-year-old girl and her 37-year-old mother.<\/p>\n

Forty-four other people suffered life-threatening or serious injuries, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

“The accused committed the act out of excessive religious motivation,” they said in the statement.<\/p>\n

“He believed he was obliged to attack and kill randomly selected people in Germany in response to the suffering of Muslims in Islamic countries.”<\/p>\n

It was the fifth in a series of attacks involving immigrants over a period of nine months that pushed migration\u00a0to the forefront of the past year’s campaign for\u00a0Germany’s snap election on 23 February.<\/p>\n

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