{"id":238829,"date":"2025-02-14T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/munich-seriously-injured-child-among-36-hurt-in-car-ramming-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:45:09","slug":"munich-seriously-injured-child-among-36-hurt-in-car-ramming-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/munich-seriously-injured-child-among-36-hurt-in-car-ramming-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich: ‘Seriously injured’ child among 36 hurt in car ramming attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police in Munich say at least 36 people were hurt when a car rammed into a crowd \u2013 including a child, who suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Police told a news conference on Friday that two of the 36 people were “very seriously hurt” in what they now say is being treated as a murder attempt, while eight more were seriously hurt. The others suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n

A 24-year-old Afghan national, Farhad N, was arrested after officers fired a shot<\/strong><\/a> at the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Workers taking part in a union demonstration were walking along a street when the car overtook a police vehicle that was accompanying the group, according to officers in the German<\/strong><\/a> city.<\/p>\n

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They said the car then sped up and ploughed into the back of the group, before police opened fire.<\/p>\n

At the news conference, public prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said the suspect had told police he “drove into the crowd purposely”.<\/p>\n

“And the reason that he gave could be summarised as of a religious reason,” she said, adding the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is great”, to police and then prayed after his arrest.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want to jump to any conclusions\u2026 but I would say that given what has happened we would assume this is an Islamic extremist attack,” she said.<\/p>\n

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She clarified that the authorities had “no reason to believe that the perpetrator was a member of any type of extremist organisation like IS (Islamic State)” and that they had not found any evidence of him having accomplices during the alleged attack.<\/p>\n

She said they were now looking through his devices to see “whether other people knew about the attack before it happened, or if he was part of a network” – but added they had not found any evidence of this so far.<\/p>\n

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The incident happened just before world leaders including US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the southern city for the Munich Security Conference this weekend.<\/p>\n

But police have said the incident is not thought to be related to the conference.<\/p>\n

Officials say Farhad N has lived in Munich since he arrived as an unaccompanied minor seeking asylum in 2016, and has no previous convictions.<\/p>\n

The man’s asylum application was rejected, but he had not been forced to leave due to security concerns in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors say he is now under investigation on 36 counts of attempted murder as well as bodily harm and dangerous interference with road traffic.<\/p>\n

Security has been in sharp focus in Germany ahead of a federal election<\/strong><\/a> next week and following a string of violent attacks.<\/p>\n

The most notable one was two months ago, when a Saudi doctor was accused of driving his car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg<\/a><\/strong>, killing six and injuring hundreds.<\/p>\n

Immigration has been a major talking point, with far-right party AfD doing well in polls.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, German chancellor Olaf Scholz described the Munich incident as a “terrible attack” and said the perpetrator “must be punished and he must leave the country”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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