A two -year -old mother and daughter succumb, what we know about the suspect and the balance sheet

The balance sheet is increasing. A 37-year-old mother and her 2-year-old daughter died of their injuries on Saturday, February 15, after being struck on Thursday during a bolden car attack. They were injured with 37 other people during a demonstration in Munich in the morning. This gathering had around 1000 people. The driver of the car, a mini Cooper, would have followed the procession and exceeded a police car before accelerating and rushing on the back of the group of demonstrators, making several victims in its path. “Eight people are seriously injured and ten moderately,” said Christian Huber Vice-President of the Munich police during a preliminary assessment.

The driver of the vehicle was able to be quickly challenged by the police who opened fire on the car, when it started its race towards the crowd, and before the individual came out of the passenger compartment. The suspect could be heard and he has converted: he admitted to having deliberately rushed on the crowd.

The author would have “self-radicalized”

The 24 -year -old driver “admitted to having voluntarily struck the participants in the demonstration and for that gave a reason that I would summarize as a religious motivation,” said Gabrielle Tillmann, representative of the local prosecutor’s office. According to the police, he is “self-radicalized”. The man allegedly shouted “Allah Akbar” after his arrest, before starting to pray. Several religious messages have been found in his phone. But “nothing indicates that it was linked to any organization such as the Islamic State,” said Gabrielle Tillmann.

The representative of the prosecution also detailed the profile of the suspect, an asylum seeker of Afghan nationality: “He lived in an apartment rented in Munich. He worked in the security sector as a store detective”. He had no judicial history, apart from “only once in Bavaria a procedure for fraud at the Employment Agency”. According to Franceinfothe young man became known on social networks as a bodybuilder. He would have participated in several competitions in Bavaria. The Spiegel newspaper adds that according to his information, the suspect was identified as a certain Farhad N. born in Kabul in 2001. Arrived in Germany in 2016, the man would have seen his request for a rejected asylum but would have received a license tolerance avoiding expulsion.

After his arrest, psychiatric expertise was carried out, not revealing mental disorders having been able to alter his discernment, said the prosecution. The German chancellor, who had mentioned an “attack” on Thursday, “said that” the assailant “will be sentenced by German justice and” returned to his country even if the conditions are not acceptable there “.