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- Nov 14, 2022
Videos of the arrest:
Translating the liveticker at FOCUS for you
Original report:
A car drove into a crowd of people in Seidl Street in Munich. There are at least 20 injured, including severely and life-threatening injuries, as the fire department announced at the scene. "We have to assume that some of them are in a life-threatening condition", a spokesman said. The perpetrator has been arrested.
Apparently the man purposely drove into the protest of members of labor union Verdi. He has been arrested at the scene.
Journalist Sandra Demmelhuber posted a picture of the situation on X. She wrote that "a car drove into the protest crowd". A young man has been detained by police.
There has been an incident at the Verdi protest. A car drove into the protest crowd. There is a person lying on the road and a young man has been detained by police. People are sitting on the ground crying and shaking. Details still unclear. @BR24
Towards "BR24", an eyewitness said that the driver purposefully targeted the protest.
A man drove into a Verdi protest crowd
Eyewitness: The police shot the car window
"BR24" also quotes an eyewitness with the words: "I have walked with that protest crowd. When the car drove into the crowd, I ran there and saw that a man was lying underneath the car." He tried to open the door, but it had been locked. The police arrived and shot the car window.
There is a large emergency response at the scene
Police sets up witness collection point
Verdi has cancelled today's planned protest at the Munich Königsplatz due to the incident. The Munich police has now set up a witness collection point at the Stiegmaierplatz.
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Verdi protester: "I can only say: That was deliberate"
11.57: A Verdi employee who was present at the protest tells FOCUS online: "The car came from behind, that is why I hardly saw anything. There was a loud bang, then I heard shots. People were screaming. I have not seen anything about the driver. Quickly, a crowd surrounded the car, then police then kept people away from the car. I talked with some of my injured colleagues, they are all deeply shocked. I can only say: That was deliberate."Kernal rushed to his father: "There were several people who got reanimated"
12.03: Kemal Incekara (27), project manager, works very close to the scene. In a talk with FOCUS online head editor Florian Festl at the scene, he told what he witnessed: He heard the sirens in the office and immediately called his father who told him that he was going to the protest. The father said he had been injured.He then rushed to the scene. "My first impulse was to look for my father. I then saw how my father was sitting on the ground. At the crossroads, I saw that there were also people with life-threatening injuries. There were several who were being reanimated."
BR: Apparently, a child had to be reanimated
12.12: As the Bayerischer Rundfunk reports, at least one person had to be reanimated at the scene. It happens to be a child. Ahead of that, the Munich head mayor Dieter Reiter reported that children are among the injured. He was "deeply shaken" by the incident.A protest participant tells "Bild": "Mother and child were lying underneath the car." Another eyewitness tells "Münchner Merkur": "Suddenly, there was an engine roar behind us, tires were spinning, then there was just crashing."
Söder speaks of "terrorist attack"
12.43: The Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder (CSU) says "it is ostensibly a terrorist attack". 28 people had been injured.Söder was shocked by the attack and made clear words: "It is just terrible." At the same time, he thanked the emergency services for their quick response: "We thank the police for preventing worse."
The Bavarian Minister President sees another wake-up call for political change in the incident: "We strongly regret what just happened. It is ostensibly a terrorist attack. By a 24 year old Afghan." Germany now needs to act deliberately: "We react somberly, but our determination grows. Who knows what else is going to happen. Something needs to change in Germany. This is another proof of that. (...) We genuinely need to change something."
Press conference on the attack: 24 year old Afghan is the driver - he was known to the police
12.45: According to statements by the police spokesman, the driver of the car is an Afghan. He is 24 year old and an asylum seeker. On the way to the attack, he overtook a police car and then slammed the throttle and raced "into the rear end of the protest march". The police wrote that he acted alone. Minister of the Interior Joachim Hermann said on the press conference that the perpetrator was already known to the police because of drug crimes and shoplifting.According to Herrmann, the quick response by the police significantly contributed in preventing further danger and injuries: "The quick intervention by the police certainly prevented further danger and injuries of more people to come." And more: "At least 1-2 people are in a life-threatening condition. We don't know if they are going to survive."
Car drove with more than 50 kph [30 mph] - police fired shot
12.57: According to BR reports, the car drove with a speed higher than 50 kph when it raced into the crowd. In addition, the police confirmed that an officer fired a shot.Bavaria Justice Minister: Extremism experts investigate
13.46: The Bavarian central department for extremism and terrorism of the Attorney General now investigates. This was said by Bavaria's Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich (CSU) near the scene.The motive of the suspected Afghan who drove the car is still unclear, said Bavaria's Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann (CSU). So far there are no leads "that there is any relation to the Security Conference". The summit with international top politicians starts on Friday in the Bavarian state capital.
[skipping what the Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz has to say, he's a fucking cockroach, go to hell]
Herrmann: Suspect was unable to be deported
14.16: According to the words of Bavaria's Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann (CSU), the young Afghan man is a rejected asylum seeker. The man came into the country as an asylum seeker, but his asylum request had "apparently" been rejected. At the same time, it has been determined "that he cannot be deported in the moment and therefore he is permitted to continue residing in our country"."So far we have found that he has been known with drug crimes and shoplifting, but according to the current investigation, no violent crimes have been determined", Herrmann said. All of that is continuously being investigated.
Driver allegedly made islamist post
14.41: The suspect of the alleged attack in Munich has allegedly made an islamist post ahead of the act. According to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the 24 year old Afghan man shared such content in social media. Earlier, the "Spiegel" wrote about alleged islamist posts of the suspect.The investigation has been taken over by the Bavarian central department for fighting extremism and terrorism of the Attorney General in Munich.
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