(14 Feb 2025)
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Munich, Germany – 14 February 2025
1. Wide of press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Gabriele Tilmann, prosecutor:
“Firstly, the perpetrator has been identified. A 24-year-old Afghan national who came to Germany in 2016 as an unaccompanied minor refugee. He was here legally at the current time, so he was not obliged to leave the country.”
3. Wide of press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Gabriele Tilmann, prosecutor:
“After the offence, the accused uttered ‘Allahu Akbar’ to police officers and then prayed after his arrest. These ‘Allahu Akbar’ utterances were by the way the reason why the ZET (Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism) immediately took over the proceedings.”
5. Wide of press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Gabriele Tilmann, prosecutor:
“He has admitted that he deliberately drove into the participants of the demonstration. He gave an explanation that I would summarize as religious motivation. I can’t quote from the interrogation of the accused here. I’m sure you understand that. But what he said about it suggests a religious motivation for the offence.”
7. Wide of press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Christian Huber, deputy police chief:
“We currently believe there are 36 injured people known to the police. In terms of injuries, we are currently talking about two severely injured people, one of whom is a child. We have eight seriously injured and ten moderately seriously injured. The remaining casualties are slightly injured.”
9. Wide of press conference
STORYLINE:
The suspect in the car-ramming attack in Munich that left more than 30 people injured appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive, but there’s no evidence that he was involved with any radical network, authorities said Friday.
The 24-year-old Afghan, who arrived in Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2016 and lived in Munich, was arrested after driving his Mini Cooper into the back of a labour union demonstration in the Bavarian city on Thursday.
Police officers pulled him out of the car after firing a shot at the vehicle, which didn’t hit him, and arrested him.
Prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said that the suspect said “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great,” to police and then prayed after his arrest — which prompted a department that investigates extremism and terror to take on the case immediately.
In questioning, he admitted deliberately driving into the demonstration and “gave an explanation that I would summarize as religious motivation,” Tilmann said.
The man had no previous convictions.
Police said that they know of 36 people who were injured in the attack, two of them very seriously and eight more seriously.
Tilmann said the suspect is under investigation on 36 counts of attempted murder as well as bodily harm and dangerous interference with road traffic.
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