(15 Feb 2025)
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Munich, Germany – 15 February 2025
1. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, German Minister for Digital and Transport Volker Wissing and Munich mayor Dieter Reiter bringing flowers to scene car crashed into labor union demonstration
2. Scholz, Wissing and Reiter standing at shrine to victims
3. Scholz, Wissing and Reiter laying flowers on ground
4. Scholz, Wissing and Reiter standing
5. Scholz, Wissing and Reiter turning
6. Wide of Scholz walking to microphones
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“We all have to stand together now, make sure that our country sticks together and that the very values that united those who peacefully organized a rally here and held a march are united with those who helped here, namely that we are together as human beings.”
8. Flowers
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“And that’s why it must always be very clear: anyone who does something like that must expect the harshest penalties. And of course, if he has no right of stay, he will also have to leave the country at the end of his sentence.”
10. Flowers
11. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“And those who commit such acts must always expect that we will take tough action against them. And that is necessary. It is disheartening and it is something that must remind us all that we must do everything in our power to prevent such acts."
STORYLINE:
A 2-year-old girl and her mother have died two days after they were injured in the car-ramming attack on a labor union demonstration in Munich, police said Saturday.
A 24-year-old Afghan man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker was arrested immediately after the attack on Thursday. Prosecutors said Friday that he appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive, but there was no evidence that he was involved with any radical network.
Thirty-nine people were hurt in the attack, and police said on Friday that two of those were very seriously injured. On Saturday, Bavaria’s state criminal police office said the young girl and her mother, a 37-year-old woman from Munich, had died of their injuries, German news agency dpa reported.
It was the fifth in a series of attacks involving immigrants over the past nine months that have pushed migration to the forefront of the campaign for Germany’s election on Feb. 23.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the scene of the attack on Saturday and laid a white rose at an improvised memorial.
Scholz said on Saturday Germany must stick to the values of unity as he laid flowers at the site.
A judge on Friday ordered that the suspect — whom authorities identified only as Farhad N. in line with German privacy rules — remain in custody pending a possible indictment.
"It must always be very clear: anyone who does something like that must expect the harshest penalties," Scholz said. "And of course, if he has no right of stay, he will also have to leave the country at the end of his sentence.”
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