BERLIN: A verdict is due Thursday for an Afghan man accused of a car-ramming attack in Munich last year which killed a two-year-old girl and her mother and left dozens injured.
The man, named only as Farhad N., has been on trial since January, accused of deliberately steering a car into a 1,400-strong trade union march. He was 24 at the time.
Prosecutors have demanded he be given a life sentence with added conditions to make early release much less likely.
The attack was one of several committed by foreign nationals in the run-up to last year’s general election that inflamed debate on immigration and security.
As well as two counts of murder, Farhad N. initially faced 44 counts of attempted murder, but half of these were later replaced by counts of bodily harm, 19 of them serious.
