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| Car drives into crowd in Munich UPDATE Rejected Afghan known wolf asylum seeker in car injures 27 before guarding police shoot him enough to stop him | |
| 2025-02-13 | |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A car drove into a group of people in Munich, leaving at least 20 people injured as police launch their investigations into the incident. There is currently a major police operation in the Dachauer Straße area. Update from German sources to follow in comments. I put it in WoT as the action seems deliberate.
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| Posted by:European Conservative |
| #15 Did he drive into a "Green" protest? If so... |
| Posted by: Crusader 2025-02-13 22:16 |
| #14 According to the German Press Agency (DPA), the suspect came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor at the end of 2016 and was taken into care by a youth welfare facility. He is said to have previously stayed in Italy. A few weeks later, the young person applied for asylum, which was rejected in September 2017. He appealed against this without success. He has been required to leave the country since fall 2020. This must stop. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 09:47 |
| #13 I haven't seen the post so I can't say. It will have an influence on the elections. The mood is indeed changing. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 09:28 |
| #12 Will his social media post(s) include a pledge to ISIS-K or Al Qaeda, do you think? Which, I mean, not if. Deutsche Welle is liveblogging events in English here The Zeitgeist is such that they cannot airbrush this. Latest updates: 18 minutes ago18 minutes ago 'Maximum firmness' must be shown, Interior Minister Faeser says German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser vowed "maximum firmness" following Thursday's ramming incident. Faeser, of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), noted that the suspect was "once again a young man from Afghanistan." She noted that laws on violent criminals' deportation have been "massively tightened" and must now be enforced. She said that Germany is the only country in Germany returning Afghans back to Afghanistan despite Taliban rule over the country. 1 hour ago1 hour ago Scholz says attack suspect must be punished and deported German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described Thursday's car ramming incident as "awful," adding that the suspect must be punished and deported. "What has happened is awful," Scholz told reporters. "From my point of view it is quite clear, this attacker cannot count on any mercy, he must be punished and he must leave the country." Scholz is the chancellor candidate for his center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the coming parliamentary elections, where migration issues have been at the forefront of debates. The opposition conservativeChristian Democratic Party (CDU), which is leading in the polls, has accused the Scholz government of being too lenient on migration issues. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-02-13 09:25 |
| #11 Is said to have posted islamist content in social media shortly before attack. German media still refer to it as "mutmaßlich" (suspected), but that's of course nonsense. Of course we'll be told about "psychological" problems pretty soon. It's time we repatriate all Afghans who have been refused asylum. Or... I think Marco Rubio has the number of a certain Mr. Bukele who seems to deal very well with these problems. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 09:13 |
| #10 Breitbart, updated once, reports the man is from Kabul. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-02-13 09:09 |
| #9 For the Rantburg name database: The name has been given as Farhad N. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 09:09 |
| #8 Latest info is that he was "ausreisepflichtig" (asylum denied), so he should have been deported. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 07:59 |
| #7 Yes. I watched the live conference. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 07:20 |
| #6 Bavarian state premier Söder assumes this was a deliberate attack according to welt.de . |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-13 07:07 |
| #5 The crowd was guarded by police as they were demonstrators on their way to a demonstration (labor dispute). Driver tried to circumvent police, got fired at but still managed to mow down people before he was stopped. No doubt this was a deliberate attack. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 07:03 |
| #4 24yo Afghan, known to police for theft and drug offenses. Police fired at least a shot at the driver and secured him. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 06:56 |
| #3 Currently 27 injured, many severely. 2 critically. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 06:46 |
| #2 The driver is an Afghan. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 06:45 |
| #1 Location not far away from the venue of the Munich Security Conference (I will attend) which starts tomorrow. Vance and Hegseth will participate. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-02-13 06:40 |