Suspect in Munich car attack had Islamic extremist motive but no link to terrorist network, prosecutor says
STUNNED: Markus Soeder, Prime Minister of Bavaria, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Dieter Reiter (SPD),Mayor of Munich, from right, bring flowers to the site where a car crashed into a Ver.di demonstration the day before
THE SUSPECT in the car-ramming attack on a trade union march in Munich that left more than 30 people injured appears to have had an Islamist motive, but there’s no evidence that he was involved with any radical network, authorities said yesterday.
The 24-year-old Afghan, who arrived in Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2016 and lived in the Bavarian city, was arrested after driving his Mini Cooper into the back of the demonstration on Thursday.
Police officers pulled him out of the car and arrested him after firing a shot at the vehicle, which didn’t hit the man.
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