Further details have emerged about the attack in Munich last fall. According to a confidential investigation report from the Bavarian police, as reported by “Spiegel”, a copy of the Quran was found in the footwell of the Mini Cooper used by the rejected asylum seeker Farhad Noori to crash into a demonstration by the Verdi trade union in mid-February. Investigators now believe the Afghan had an Islamist motivation. In his interrogation, he made corresponding statements, according to the document. In another document, the investigators mentioned that the man had admitted to the crime, but made contradictory and incoherent statements.
It appears that the religious motivation is also consistent with the fact that the 24-year-old allegedly watched videos with sermons and images of Quranic surahs before the attack. This was discovered in an initial review of his phone. The device also revealed suspicious chats, including a farewell message he sent the night before the attack: “Perhaps I won’t be there tomorrow, perhaps I won’t exist tomorrow. Can you read the Quran to the end for me?” A woman he was in contact with wrote back: “You are the best believer Allah would like to have.” Investigators now plan to fully analyze the phone.
Following the attack in Munich, a two-year-old girl and her mother succumbed to their severe injuries, with over 30 people, some of them seriously, injured.