At least 28 people were injured when an Afghan migrant rammed his car into a crowd of demonstrators in the German city of Munich.
The attack comes as Germany heads for a national election in ten days. The socialist-led coalition government collapsed just hours after President Donald Trump won the U.S. election last November. In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, migration has been catapulted to the top of the agenda ahead of the snap election on February 23, 2025.
The incident occurred while Vice President JD Vance was in the city attending the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of policymakers and politicians from around the world.
The attacker has been identified as a “24-years old Afghan man,” German weekly Der Spiegel, reported. “According to the Munich city fire department, ten people were seriously injured,” the weekly added.
The attacker was on the radar of the authorities for his Islamic activities and had entered the country after Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the borders to illegal migrants in the autumn of 2015. “The suspect posted Islamist [content on social media] in the past,” Die Tageszeitung newspaper noted. “It is confirmed that he came to Germany in 2016.”
“The police stopped the 24-year-old by shooting at the Mini (Cooper),” BILD newspaper reported. The attacker named “Farhad N. was arrested. Police then took him to a hospital for [medical] examination.”
Germany’s state-run DW TV reported:
Munich police said Thursday afternoon there was no public danger after a car drove into a group of people earlier in the day in the capital city of Germany’s southern state of Bavaria. They said at least 28 people were injured in the incident.The driver was detained promptly at the scene, police said, later saying that he was a 24-year-old Afghan national asylum seeker.”The driver of the vehicle was secured on the spot; he currently poses no further danger,” police said. (…)Broadcaster BR24 said the group reportedly consisted of people carrying out a token strike by the trade union Verdi.It also quoted eyewitnesses as saying two men had been in the car, with one of them being shot by police and carried away. Police were calling on the public to refrain from speculation, it said.According to police, the car drove past a police vehicle that was guarding the rear of the trade union’s march in central Munich before plowing into the crowd. They said they fired one shot before detaining the driver. (…)Hermann also said the man was known to police, having committed shoplifting and drugs offenses in the past.
The trade union Verdi, traditionally aligned with the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), has played a leading role in organizing demonstrations against “The Right” across the country, aimed primarily at the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
While the criminal and jihadist migrants are slaughtering people in the streets, Germany’s president has warned his countrymen to beware of ‘Elon Musk’s influence’ after the tech billionaire voiced his support for AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel. The AfD is polling at 21 percent, eight points behind the Christian Democratic (CDU) candidate Friedrich Merz, the latest poll numbers show.
According to Die Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, Germany, a country the size of Montana, “recorded 26,000 knife attacks in 2023.”
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