BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany introduced homicide fees Tuesday in opposition to an Afghan man accused of killing two folks and injuring 44 in a car-ramming in Munich in February that prosecutors say was motivated by a want to avenge struggling of Muslims.
The person, an Afghan nationwide recognized solely as Farhad N. in step with German privateness guidelines, was arrested instantly after the assault throughout a labor union demonstration. He got here to Germany as an asylum seeker and was 24 years previous on the time of the assault.
Federal prosecutors mentioned in an announcement that on the morning of Feb. 13, the suspect “intentionally drove his automobile” into the union occasion in downtown Munich.
The automobile ramming fatally injured two folks, a two-year-old woman and her 37-year-old mom. Forty-four different folks suffered life-threatening or severe accidents, prosecutors mentioned.
“The accused dedicated the act out of extreme non secular motivation,” they mentioned within the assertion. “He believed he was obliged to assault and kill randomly chosen folks in Germany in response to the struggling of Muslims in Islamic nations.”
It was the fifth in a collection of assaults involving immigrants over a interval of 9 months that pushed migration to the forefront of the previous yr’s marketing campaign for Germany’s election on Feb. 23.
