(14 Feb 2025)
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Munich, Germany – 14 February 2025
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1. Candles and flowers
2. Candle, with text reading (German) "Don’t use the attack for the election campaign"
3. Attack site, candles and flowers
4. People at tube station
5. People entering newspaper store
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Anna Zagkoti, 37, Munich resident:
"I’m speechless. It is so sad when something like this happens. We had too many other cases like this in other German cities. For me, it is really sad and it cannot continue. Politicians have to do somethings, and we as society too. We have to stand together and fight it."
7. Newspapers
8. Newspaper "Bild" headline, reading (German) "The horror of Munich"
9. Newspaper "TZ" headline reading (German) "Attacker arrested"
10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Ute Popper, 61, Munich resident:
"I’m speechless and can’t find words anymore. It doesn’t stop, and nobody does anything to stop it."
11. Newspaper headline, reading (German) "Terrifying"
12. Newspaper headline, reading (German) "Terror reaches Munich"
13. SOUNDBITE: (German) Ute Popper, 61, Munich resident:
"It will have consequences and people will feel more anger towards asylum seekers and that’s also not right because not all of them are criminals. It will be difficult in the future. I’m not a political person but I think it’s going to be difficult."
14. Media at street where the attack took place
15. Street where the attack took place
STORYLINE:
Some residents in the German city of Munich said they were in shock Friday, following an apparent car-ramming attack that injured 30 people the day before.
A driver drove a car into a labor union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring 30 people including children, authorities said. Officials said it was believed to be an attack.
"I’m speechless. It is so sad when something like this happens," said Anna Zagkoti, a Munich resident.
The suspect, an Afghan asylum-seeker, was arrested.
The incident follows a series of attacks involving immigrants in recent months that have pushed migration to the forefront of the campaign for Germany’s Feb. 23 election.
Participants in a demonstration by the service workers’ union ver.di were walking along a street at about 10:30 a.m. when the suspect’s Mini Cooper overtook a police vehicle following the gathering, accelerated and plowed into the back of the group, police said.
Officers arrested the suspect after firing a shot at the car, deputy police chief Christian Huber said.
Some of the victims sustained serious injuries.
The car, with a battered front and a shattered windshield, was lifted onto a tow truck late Thursday afternoon after investigators inspected it among debris including shoes.
"It will have consequences and people will feel more anger towards asylum seekers and that’s also not right because not all of them are criminals," said 61-year-old Ute Popper, another Munich resident.
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