(CLO) At least 30 people were injured after a car crashed into a parade in Munich. The suspect, a legal Afghan citizen in Germany, was arrested and ordered deported.
The incident on Thursday came after a car plowed into a union march in Munich, just before world leaders arrived in the city for the Munich Security Conference, and just two weeks before the German election.
The suspect is believed to be a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan, Munich police chief Christian Huber told reporters. Bavarian Governor Markus Söder said the incident was “suspected to be a targeted attack”.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the incident. He said repeat offenders should be punished more severely and stressed that he had taken action to ensure more people were deported, for example through deportation flights to Afghanistan.
The scene of the car crash in Munich, Germany. (Source: TIF)
"I repeat: non-German citizens who commit such acts must prepare for deportation," he said, arguing that data protection laws in Germany were preventing the country's authorities from identifying potential perpetrators of terrorist acts early.
“In my opinion, domestic security has to come first,” he said. “We need to make these people stumble before they can act. We can’t look at what people are saying but these criminals tend to make comments that are likely to cause alarm. We can’t let data protection get in the way of that.”
Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right AfD party, has insisted that the detained Afghan citizen would never be allowed to enter Germany if her party were in power.
"It's always the same pattern: an asylum seeker comes to Germany, his asylum application is rejected and he is not deported," she told ZDF television, stressing: "According to the AfD, he should not have been here in the first place."
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Video of suspect arrested in car crash (source: X/TIF)
"According to our current information, the perpetrator's presence [in Germany] is completely legal," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the dpa news agency.
According to Herrmann, the man, now 24, arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor refugee in 2016. His asylum application was rejected in 2020 and a deportation order was issued.
However, the order was revoked in Munich in April 2021 and a residence permit was granted a few months later. Herrmann said the man then went to school and completed a vocational training course before working for two security companies.
Huy Hoang (according to DW, Reuters, CNN)
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