(Deutsche Welle) On Thursday morning, a young man drove his car into a crowd of demonstrators in the center of Munich. The suspected perpetrator was named by police as 24-year-old Farhad N., an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan. He was arrested at the scene and, according to the investigating authorities, confessed to the crime.
The Public Prosecutor General’s Office in Munich stated that the suspected perpetrator appears to have been motivated by Islamism. After the attack, the man is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”), said Gabriele Tilmann, the senior public prosecutor.
She added, however, that there was no evidence to suggest that he was part of an Islamist network.
An investigation has been opened by the Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism in Bavaria and a special commission.
