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The man, an Afghan national identified only as Farhad N. in line
with German privacy rules, was arrested immediately after the
attack during a labor union demonstration. He came to Germany as
an asylum seeker and was 24 years old at the time of the attack.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement that on the morning of
Feb. 13, the suspect "deliberately drove his car” into the union
event in downtown Munich.
The car ramming fatally injured two people, a two-year-old girl
and her 37-year-old mother. Forty-four other people suffered
life-threatening or serious injuries, prosecutors said.
“The accused committed the act out of excessive religious
motivation,” they said in the statement. “He believed he was
obliged to attack and kill randomly selected people in Germany
in response to the suffering of Muslims in Islamic countries.”
It was the fifth in a series of attacks involving immigrants
over a period of nine months that pushed migration to the
forefront of the past year's campaign for Germany’s election on
Feb. 23.
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