An attack in Munich left 28 people injured when a car was rammed into a crowd of people on Thursday.
Two of the victims were left fighting for life after a Mini Cooper drove into a group of trade union strikers on Seidlstrasse at around 10:30am.
Anti-terror police in Germany are investigating the incident, and attention is turning to the suspect and their alleged motives.
A 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker was arrested by police soon after the attack.
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The general prosecutor’s office in Munich identified the suspect as Farhad Noori, according to the Reuters news agency.
The incident took place a mile away from the venue where the Munich Security Conference is being held on Friday. US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky both arrive in the city on Thursday, though at this stage authorities do not believe the attack is connected to the event.
Here is everything we know about the person suspected of being behind the Munich car attack so far.
Who is the suspect?
Farhad Noori, born in Kabul in 2001, first arrived in Germany from Afghanistan at the end of 2016, according to Der Spiegel.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reportedly rejected his asylum application.
Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann confirmed that he had arrived in the country as an asylum-seeker adding that his application had “probably” been rejected, Die Zeit reported. But Mr Herrman added that the suspect could not be deported because of security concerns in Afghanistan, and that he was therefore allowed to continue to stay in Germany.
He had been granted a toleration permit which means that deportation is suspended, Der Spiegel said.
Hints of an ‘extremist’ background
The Munich prosecutor’s office told Die Zeit that there were at least “indications of an extremist background”.
State minister Georg Eisenreich confirmed that the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism had taken control of the investigation into the attack.
According to Der Spiegel, Noori put Islamist posts on social media before allegedly carrying out the crime.
Police do not currently believe those injured in the attack – protestors linked with the Verdi trade union – were targeted specifcally.
“At the moment we are actually assuming that the target group here, that the victims from the ranks of this Verdi demonstration, were more of a coincidence,” Mr Herrman told reporters according to Die Zeit. “But of course that also needs to be investigated.”
He was already known to police
“So far we know that he has been caught with drugs and shoplifting, but according to the current state of the investigation, no violence has been detected,” a police spokesperson said.
Investigators are continuing to look into his background as they try and establish any potential motive, and they raided his apartment in an upmarket area of Munich.
He was still being questioned hours after the 30 people were injured.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on the perpetrator of the attack to leave the country.
“This perpetrator cannot hope for any leniency. He must be punished and he must leave the country,” Mr Scholz said.
“If it was an attack, we must take consistent action against possible perpetrators with all means of justice,” he added.
Was anyone else involved?
According to one eyewitness report in Bild, which emerged soon after the crash, two people were seen in the Mini. However this has yet to be confirmed and only one man appears to have been detained at the scene.
In a post on X, Munich police said they could not confirm whether more than one person was involved.
“As reported, the person secured is the driver of the car,” police said. “There is speculation about other people involved. Based on our current knowledge, we cannot confirm this.”
