Munich attack suspect: What we know about Afghan asylum-seeker arrested after car driven into crowd
An attack in Munich left 28 people injured when a car was rammed into a crowd of people on Thursday.
Two of the victims were left fighting for life after a Mini Cooper drove into a group of trade union strikers on Seidlstrasse at around 10:30am.
Anti-terror police in Germany are investigating the incident, and attention is turning to the suspect and their alleged motives.
A 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker was arrested by police soon after the attack.
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The general prosecutor’s office in Munich identified the suspect as Farhad Noori, according to the Reuters news agency.
The incident took place a mile away from the venue where the Munich Security Conference is being held on Friday. US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky both arrive in the city on Thursday, though at this stage authorities do not believe the attack is connected to the event.
Here is everything we know about the person suspected of being behind the Munich car attack so far.
Farhad Noori, born in Kabul in 2001, first arrived in Germany from Afghanistan at the end of 2016, according to Der Spiegel.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reportedly rejected his asylum application.
Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann confirmed that he had arrived in the country as an asylum-seeker adding that his application had “probably” been rejected, Die Zeit reported. But Mr Herrman added that the suspect could not be deported because of security concerns in Afghanistan, and that he was therefore allowed to continue to stay in Germany.
He had been granted a toleration permit which means that deportation is suspended, Der Spiegel said.
The Munich prosecutor’s office told Die Zeit that there were at least “indications of an extremist background”.
State minister Georg Eisenreich confirmed that the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism had taken control of the investigation into the attack.
