(Deutsche Welle) The trial against Farhad N., a 25-year-old Afghan man accused of driving a car into a crowd of people in Munich this February, began at the city’s Higher Regional Court on Tuesday.
The defendant faces two counts of murder and 44 counts of attempted murder for the February 13 incident.
Prosecutors say the Afghan citizen was “motivated by exaggerated religious zeal” when he carried out the attack.
State prosecutors say that during questioning the defendant spoke of a sense of obligation to arbitrarily kill people in Germany as a direct response to the suffering of Muslims worldwide.
