Fahrad N., the young Afghan arrested for the attack that took place yesterday in Munich, landed in Calabria in 2016. He declared himself 15 years old, was identified and photographed, then went straight to Germany, before crossing the border his presence in Brescia had been registered.
Germany had rejected his asylum request, but the 24-year-old had obtained a suspension of the deportation from the Ministry for Immigration . He was already known to the police for theft and drug possession and, the weekly Spiegel reports, had published Islamist posts on social media. One just before he acted.
The man, when questioned, admitted to having intentionally thrown himself into the crowd . Magistrate Gabriele Tilmann, who is coordinating the investigation, spoke of the suspect's "Islamist orientation". There is currently no reason to believe that he had accomplices or is part of a network, in particular there is currently no evidence that he was part of organizations such as the Islamic State.
A film already seen, a car that runs over the crowd in the city center, this time during a union demonstration, leaving 36 people on the ground . Two of the injured are very serious, including a child who is dying . The umpteenth attack of this kind, the far right speaks of "a pattern, always the same, that repeats itself". And it is ready to cash in on the February 23 elections, even if the last car to crash into the crowd - at the Christmas market in Magdeburg - was that of a Saudi doctor, a sympathizer of the AfD. Less than a month ago in a Bavarian park, in Aschaffenburg, two people including a two-year-old child were killed by the hand of a young Afghan armed with a kitchen knife.
The young Afghan's white Mini Cooper overtook the police vehicle escorting the procession, accelerating at full speed, and ran over people. Panic, screams, dozens injured, a stroller on the ground. The police shot, then blocked the attacker and took him to the hospital .
"A terrifying attack," Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it shortly after, announcing without reservations that "there will be no leniency, the person responsible must be punished and must leave the country."
