A 24-year-old Afghan man who drove a car into a crowd at a demonstration in Germany’s Munich on Thursday has confessed that he deliberately did it, a prosecutor said.
A total of 39 people were wounded in the incident, according to police.
Two are in a critical condition, including a child, and a further eight are in a serious condition, police spokesman Guido Limmer told reporters.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and several regional leaders visited the scene on Friday morning, all laying flowers.
“The brutality of this act has left us deeply disturbed and bewildered,” Steinmeier said in a statement, noting that it appeared the suspect had “wanted to kill and injure people indiscriminately”.
“The perpetrator is in custody and will be brought to justice in accordance with the law,” he said.
The suspect was said to have arrived in Germany in 2016 at the height of the mass migrant influx to Europe.
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai condemned the attack and offered his condolences to the families of the victims.
