Police notes that at least 36 people were injured after a car overwhelm a multitude of people who were in the place where a union demonstration was celebrated. Two of the injured are in critical condition.
ADVERTISINGAmong the 36 victims of the multiple abuse that took place on Thursday in Munich, is a child who remains in serious condition in a hospital in the capital of Bavara. Police sources reported that two of the injured were debated between life and death and that another eight were seriously injured.
Prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann declared that the suspect to run over a multitude of people who were in the muniqués space in which a trade union demonstration, a 24 -year -old Afghan citizen, had confessed to having confessed, had confessed deliberately overwhelmed the crowd.
In addition, he added that local authorities have reasons to believe that there was a “religious motivation” to carry out the attack, and that would be investigated by the anti -terrorist service Police.
The president of Bavaria, Markus Söder, the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and the mayor of Munich, along with members of the Ver.di union, some of whose supporters were victims of the attack Perpetrated Thursday, they left flowers in an improvised monument created in tribute to the injured in the place of the events.
The commemorative candles deposited by some political representatives and muniquese citizens had written messages such as “together for democracy and human rights” and “and”Do not use the attack for the electoral campaign“.
The general director of Ver.DI in Munich, Claudia Weber, told ‘Euronews’ that she took part in the demonstration on Thursday, but did not witness the attack. “We are all completely shocked and affected. It is terrible that this has happened, and we only have one thought,” he said about the event.
“Our thoughts are occupied by the situation of the classmates in the hospital. We hope everyone recovers. That It is our only concern And it represents our pain right now, “he said.
The suspicious confessed of the outrage arrived in Germany in 2016 as an asylum applicant. The German authorities explained that his asylum application was rejected, but they let him stay in the country with A valid residence permitafter it could not be deported due to security problems in Afghanistan.
German politicians have reacted to the tragic event promising more strict measures in immigration. The current German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced that those who commit serious crimes in the country “must count on that They will not be able to continue their stay in Germany“.
(Tagstotranslate) Munich