At Least 28 Injured in Munich Terror Attack

According to Munich Police Department, at least 28 people sustained injuries when a vehicle crashed into a crowd in the center of Munich, Germany. Witnesses accounts indicate that a Mini Cooper was intentionally driven into a crowd of approximately 1,000 people on Seidlstrasse in Munich.

In its initial statement posted on X, Munich police authorities confirmed the attack, writing, “A vehicle drove into a group of people.” Law enforcement officials did not specify the number of injured victims. Subsequently, authorities announced that the driver had been apprehended and currently poses no further threat.

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Law enforcement has initiated an investigation to ascertain whether the driver intentionally targeted the crowd or mistakenly confused the accelerator with the brake.

Later, Munich officials issued an update identifying the suspect as a “24-year-old man of Afghan descent.”

Later reports said the perpetrator was an asylum seeker with a prior criminal history of drug offenses and theft and that several children were among the injured, with one in critical condition.

During a press conference, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soder stated that the incident is “suspected to be a deliberate attack.”

Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said that he was “deeply shocked” by the attack.

The event during which the incident took place was organized by the United Services Union, known as Verdi, which is the second largest trade union in Germany, following IG Metal. This rally was part of a one-day “warning strike” that the union had planned for public sector employees, scheduled for Thursday. After the attack, the union decided to cancel its rally.

Why This Saudi Terrorist Killed Germans Attending the Magdeburg Christmas Market?

The picture-perfect German City of Magdeburg in the State of Sachsen-Anhalt became the scene of a terror attack. A German and Islam hater, a Saudi medical doctor residing in Germany and wanted in his home country for terrorism, planned to kill Germans, according to his X account, and he did. Today, He killed two, including a young child, and injured 60 attending the city’s famous Christkindlmarket.

Today’s attack happened less than two months after a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatrist drove his vehicle into a crowd at the Magdeburg Christmas market in December, leading to five deaths, including that of a child, and injuring more than 200 individuals.

Saudi Arabia is said to have informed the German authorities regarding the extremist views of the perpetrator and sought his extradition; however, these alerts were not heeded.