A 37-year-old woman from Munich who suffered serious injuries earlier this week in a car that rammed, said the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation on Saturday.
A 2-year-old, her daughter, died of injuries in the attack, said officials shortly before.
The police said that at least 39 people were injured on Thursday when a 24-year-old Afghan with his car in a demonstration was organized by the Verdi Trade Union.
The driver is in custody and the investigation continues.
Paid tribute
Verdi -Baas Frank Werneke expressed his deep shock about the death of the mother and daughter. He said the woman was a colleague who came to the demonstration with her child. “The grief about the suffering of the victims of the attack in Munich is almost immeasurable,” he said.
Munich Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter said the woman was a municipal employee. “She and her daughter were killed when she took to the streets for her trade union rights. The pain cannot be put into words,” said Reiter.
Bavarian State Prime Minister Markus Söder went to X and said: “All this hurts so much and is so useless. The whole Bavaria are in mourning.”
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the scene of the crime, laid a rose and demanded the toughest fine for the attacker.
“Things like this should not happen,” said Scholz. “Everyone who does something like that must expect the toughest punishments.”
He said that everyone who does not have a right of residence must leave the country at the end of their sentence.
Scholz also thanked staff of salvation and emergency services.
“We all have to stand together now and ensure that our country stays together,” he added.
Research continues
Researchers currently assume that the violation had an Islamic background. The driver is in custody.
The suspect, an Afghan citizen, admitted that while interrogating the Mars deliberately accelerated, said Gabriele Tilmann, the most important public public prosecutor for the central office of Munich for combating extremism and terrorism (set).
She called the police – testimony that the driver called “Allahu Akbar” – Arabic for “God is greatest” – after the attack as proof of a possible Islamic motive.
The office of the federal public prosecutor took over the investigation on Friday evening. “It is suspected that the violation was religiously motivated and should be conceived as an attack on the free Democratic Basic Order,” the authority said.
The man last lived legally in Germany. According to a judicial decision against the rejection of his asylum application from October 2020, he would have lied about his escape story. But Munich City brought a tolerance decision in 2021 and gave the man a home permit.
A week before Germans have to vote in Snap National Parlilamentary Elections, legislators are divided on how to respond.
Police officers investigate a car near a crime scene in the city center of Munich, where a vehicle entered a group of people. As the police announced on platform X, several people were injured. “We are currently on site with strong forces,” said a police spokesperson. Matthias Balk/DPA
