Mother and daughter killed
Auto attack on Verdi demo: Afghan charged with murder
A 24-year-old Afghan is said to have driven in Munich in Munich. Two people died, many were injured. Now he threatens a murder process.
The federal prosecutor charged the driver who drove to a group of demonstrators in Munich in February. The Karlsruhe authority accuses the man, among other things, double murder and attempted murder in 44 cases.
“The accused committed the crime from an exaggerated religious motivation,” says the message. “He was committed to having to attack and kill arbitrarily selected people in Germany in response to the suffering of Muslims in Islamic countries.”
The then 24-year-old Afghan drove on February 13th-ten days before the early Bundestag election-in demonstrators at an event of the Verdi union. A few days later, a 37-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter succumbed to her serious injuries.
“44 other people were partly life -threatening or serious injuries,” said the federal prosecutor. In addition, she also accuses the man dangerous bodily harm and a severe dangerous intervention in road traffic.
Attack for freedom-democratic basic order
“There is a suspicion that the crime was religiously motivated and is to be understood as an attack on the free democratic basic order,” said the Federal Prosecutor’s office when she took over the investigation from the Munich General Prosecutor’s Office because of the special importance of the case as the highest indictment in Germany. “This makes it suitable to affect the internal security of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
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The Munich Higher Regional Court must decide whether it allows the indictment. In a further step, it would start appointments for a process. According to the federal prosecutor, the accused is still in custody.
No connection to IS
The investigators in Munich assume an Islamist motif of the driver. The chief prosecutor of the central office to combat extremism and terrorism (ZET) of the Munich General Prosecutor’s Office, Gabriele Tilmann, said at a press conference the day after the crime that the man called “Allahu Akbar” and prayed after his deed. In his interrogation, he “admitted to the participants of the demonstration train deliberately”.
According to the information, there was no evidence at the time that the man was integrated into a network. The investigators also had no traces to a connection to the terrorist organization of Islamic State (IS), to other parties involved or to an increasing radicalization of the young man in the recent past.
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Source: Stern
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