The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has expressed his “solidarity” with the victims of the multiple car accident in Munich, perpetrated this Thursday by an Afghan citizen and which has caused at least 30 injuries, two of them seriously.
“We are following with concern what happened today in Munich. Our thoughts and solidarity are with the injured, to whom we wish a speedy recovery, and with the German people as a whole. Nothing can justify such violent acts,” declared the minister through social networks.
At least 30 people have been injured this Thursday in Munich after a car ran over a group of people who were participating in a demonstration called by the Verdi union. The authorities are considering the hypothesis that it was “an attack”. The author of the attack, a 24-year-old Afghan citizen, asylum seeker and with a history related to drugs and theft, has been arrested.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for justice to act “with all means” against the perpetrator and said, just ten days before the general election: “Anyone who commits crimes in Germany will not only be severely punished, they must go to prison and not be allowed to remain in Germany.”
