(AP) The suspect in the car-ramming attack in Munich that injured 39 people 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 a Mini Cooper into a labor union demonstration in the Bavarian city on Thursday. He was arrested after police officers pulled him out of the car after firing a shot at the vehicle, which didn’t hit him.
Authorities said 39 people were injured in the attack, two of them very seriously and eight seriously. 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.
