Mental Illness Ruled out in Munich Vehicular Homicide
"[In questioning, he admitted deliberately driving into the demonstration and] gave an explanation that I would summarize as religious motivation.""According to all we know at the moment, I would venture to speak of an Islamist motivation.""[He posted content with religious references -- such as 'Allah -- protect us always' -- on social media, where he described himself as a body-builder and fitness model].""I'm very cautious about making hasty judgements, but based on everything we know at the moment, I would venture to speak of an Islamist motivation for the crime."Munich Prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann
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| A car rammed into a union rally in the Bavarian capital, with authorities saying some 36 were injured. |
The 24-year-old Afghan failed refugee applicant who drove a Mini Cooper into a procession of trade union protesters in Munich, after an initial investigation, faces 36 counts of attempted murder, bodily harm and dangerous interference with road traffic. A new charge has been added, however, that of the murder of a 37-year-old woman, and her two-year-old child, both trapped under the charging car as it plowed into the back end of the crowd of union protesters.
Police have identified the suspect in the Thursday incident as Farhad N. "Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old
child and her 37-year-old mother," police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger announced on Saturday. Mother and child had been rushed to hospital, along with others who had suffered serious injuries; thus far they are the only injured not to have survived the brutal vehicular assault.
According to authorities, the suspect arrived in Germany in 2016. Despite his asylum application having been rejected, he was permitted on humanitarian grounds to remain in Germany, under the theory that should he be deported back to Afghanistan, he might face risks there. In Germany he obtained a valid residence and work permit. Police say now he had no previous criminal record, and no evidence exists of a link to a jihadist group.
In January, a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker stabbed a group of children in a park in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg. On that occasion a two-year-old child and a passerby who attempted to intervene were both killed. A month earlier, a 50-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who posed as a critic of Islam drove a vehicle into a German Christmas market, killing six people, and injuring 299 people.
"The brutality of this crime churns our emotions and renders us speechless.""[The injured included children, some of them seriously. The person responsible would be] held to account according to the law."German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Guidi Limmer, deputy head of Bavaria's state criminal police office, revealed that investigators found an online chat, seemingly with relatives, in which the suspect wrote "perhaps I won't be there anymore tomorrow". Police have unveiled nothing that might point to concrete preparations for the attack, or whether anyone else had been involved, although that single line in and of itself might indicate mental preparation.
Among the jobs he held, one was a work assignment as a store detective. Prosecutor Tillman advised there was no indication of the involvement of a mental illness. Unless one considers, perhaps, that violent Islamism in and of itself is a symptom of a violent pathology that arises sporadically and spontaneously in the faith-demented minds of such as he.
One might logically query: what is the purpose and effect of a rejected asylum claim, if the claimant is permitted regardless, to remain in the country which has rejected his asylum request, issued a work permit and live there as a permanent resident...? And how many rejected asylum claimants demonstrating their contempt for the country's generosity does it take to have a second look at the absurdity of the situation?
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| German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Minister for Justice and Transport Volker Wissing and Munich mayor Dieter Reiter lay flowers as they visit a makeshift memorial for the victims of a suspected ramming attack where a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd, as the Munich Security Conference (MSC) takes place in Munich, Germany February 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach |
Labels: Failed Afghan Refugee Claimant, Munich/Germany, Murdered Mother and Child, Trade Union Procession, Vehicular Attack
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, February 16, 2025
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