Gabriele Tilmann says suspect’s online communications point to extremism but investigators have found no links to jihadist groups
German police and prosecutors have said the Afghan suspect in a car ramming in central Munich that injured at least 36 people is believed to have had an “Islamist” motive and will answer to charges of attempted murder.
One day after the attack on a trade union rally during the final stage of the German election campaign, the chief prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann told reporters that online “communications” by the suspect, a 24-year-old asylum seeker, pointed to Islamic extremism.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/14/munich-car-attack-believed-to-have-had-islamist-motive-says-prosecutor
Author : Deborah Cole in Berlin
Publish date : 2025-02-14 13:35:35
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