30 people injured in car ramming attack in Munich Germany

 

A officer and police dog inspect the car used in the attack. AP. 

30 people were injured in a car ramming attack in Munich Germany. AP. The suspect was a 24 year old asylum seeker from Afghanistan. He targeted a march by a service workers union, ver.di, and rammed his Mini Cooper into the crowd. Police opened fire on the car and was able to capture the attacker. It is suspected that the crowd was targeted randomly and not because of their political activity. The incident comes 10 days before the election where immigration has been a critical issue. Both the more mainstream conservatives and the AFD are demanding political consequences for the attack. 

My Comment:

Yet another car ramming attack, this one injuring 30 people. Thankfully the attacker picked a pretty terrible car for his attack. There are a few cars worse than a Mini Cooper for a car ramming attack, but not many. The car's small size probably explains why it doesn't sound like anyone will die from this attack. Once again, I am thankful for stupid terrorists. 

We don't yet know exactly why this attacker did this, but it's hardly important. I am guessing it was radical Islam but in the past car ramming attack it was actually committed by a former Muslim who hated current Muslims and attacked Germans because of their policy of allowing Muslims in the country. Hopefully this attack has more understandable motives, but it's very possible it won't. 

Regardless, it hardly matters what the motive of this crime was, the fact is that it was entirely preventable. I said that with the last car ramming attack in Germany and I will repeat it again here. The attacker was an asylum seeker and there was no reason for him to have been in Germany in the first place. There were a lot of safe places a lot nearer to Afghanistan instead of Germany he could have stayed at. Instead he traveled across an entire continent to enter Germany and committed a serious crime. This attack was absolutely preventable. 

I do have to appreciate the irony of the attacker targeting a bunch of leftists that were marching for their parties that would welcome even more folks like the attacker into the country. Do you think any of them will change their minds after seeing the consequences of their polices first hand? Probably not, but you never know, maybe some of them will.

This attack will probably help the conservative parties in Germany. This attack will probably help AFD, the German "far right" party, since it matches their rhetoric. I haven't followed the German election too closely but it does sound like the conservatives are going to win and AFD is going to be part of the ruling coalition. 

Finally, I do wonder if this was related to ISIS or if this was just a "lone wolf" attacker doing it for his own reasons. I did say that the motive doesn't matter and I guess that is true, but if this was part of a larger plot we could see further attacks. I doubt it was because you would think that if that if this was an ISIS (or other terror group) plot, they would have thought to rent a truck instead of a Mini Cooper.

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