SUSPECT NAMED WITH AT LEAST 30 INJURED Ahead of Zelensky’s visit for a Security Conference
A failed asylum-seeker in Germany has driven into crowds at a trade union demonstration, injuring at least 30 people, including young children. At least two of the wounded in Munich were fighting for their lives.
Anti-terror police are investigating what authorities believe was a deliberate attack and a 24-year-old Afghan was arrested after officers shot at the car, police say.
Prosecutors say the suspect has at least “indications of an extremist background”, German news site Zeit Online reports, and Der Spiegel says he is believed to have put Islamist posts on social media before the attack.
The general prosecutor’s office identified him as Farhad Noori, according to our sources. His asylum application had been rejected but it had been impossible to deport him, according to Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Herrmann. The suspect was known to authorities for shoplifting and drug offences, he said.
Witnesses told how the attacker’s car overtook a police vehicle following the rally, then accelerated and ploughed into the back of the group.
The Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism is leading the investigation.
The Munich Security Conference is set to open on Friday, with US vice-president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky due to arrive within hours.
