Following the attack in Munich, a two-year-old child and a 37-year-old woman succumbed to their severe injuries, a spokesperson for the Bavarian State Criminal Police confirmed to the German News Agency. The child and the woman passed away on Saturday afternoon, with the spokesperson stating that “in normal medical standards” there were no longer any fatalities to be expected and that no one else was in a life-threatening condition, apart from the two fatalities. According to earlier reports, a total of 36 people were injured, some of them severely.
Just minutes before the announcement of the fatalities, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) visited the site of the attack, where a man had driven a car into a crowd on Thursday. The Chancellor once again called for a harsh punishment of the perpetrator and emphasized that criminal foreigners must be deported.
The arrested man is a 24-year-old Afghan, whose asylum application was rejected in 2020, although his deportation was set aside. He later received a residence permit. The investigative authorities are investigating an Islamist motive, with the General Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Federal Court of Justice now taking over the case.