(AFP) A suspected Islamic State group supporter has been arrested in Germany for allegedly trying to cause fatal crashes on a motorway by shooting at cars with an air rifle, prosecutors said Friday.
The 21-year-old suspect, a Turkish national who has not been named, “intended to kill ‘unbelievers’ through the series of attacks,” the public prosecutor’s office in the southern city of Munich said in a press statement.
Authorities believe the man fired a commercially available air rifle at a total of 22 “randomly selected vehicles” on the motorway near the Bavarian town of Dillingen an der Donau from September 9 to 11.
He allegedly hoped to trigger fatal accidents, and is now facing 22 counts of attempted murder, prosecutors said.
