Vehicular attacks are a common jihad tactic. The Islamic State (ISIS) issued this call in September 2014:
So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….
But German authorities are assuming this fellow is mentally ill. Of course. What else could he possibly be?
“Planned attack in Munich: Ali Reza K. (36) wanted to kill many people on Marienplatz,” translated from “Anschlag in München geplant: Ali Reza K. (36) wollte auf Marienplatz viele Menschen töten,” by Göran Schattauer, Focus Online, July 10, 2021:
It was only with luck that Munich escaped a catastrophe in May 2020: A 36-year-old Afghan wanted to speed into the pedestrian zone between Stachus and Marienplatz in a powerful car and cause a bloodbath. Now the trial began against the mentally ill man who is said to have acted out of Islamist motives. The parallels to the knife attack in Würzburg are terrifying.
On May 10, 2020, the Bavarian capital of Munich apparently only narrowly escaped a disaster. According to investigations by the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office, the 36-year-old Ali Reza K., who was born in Iran and is an Afghan citizen, wanted to wreak a bloodbath in the city center. He had planned to speed into the pedestrian zone between Stachus and Marienplatz in a powerful car and “kill as many people as possible by being run over”.
The project failed because, despite several attempts, the man did not succeed in hijacking a vehicle by force. Armed with a kitchen knife about 30 centimeters long and presumably with a massive iron hammer, he robbed a total of four cars that were waiting at a red light. He is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) several times and hit the windows of the cars. But the drivers were able to flee – and thus prevent worse.
For the public prosecutor’s office it is clear: “The accused acted for Islamist motives.”
The trial of Ali Reza K., who is mentally ill and has been treated in a specialist clinic for over half a year, began on Friday at the Munich Regional Court. He suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, has delusions. There are many indications that he committed the act in a state of diminished – if not eliminated – guilty capacity. Most likely he was unable to see the wrongdoing and act on that insight.
The trial is therefore not about how long the perpetrator has to go to prison if convicted. Rather, the court will decide whether he belongs permanently in a psychiatric institution.
The Attorney General has no doubt about that. She is convinced that the accused “can be expected to carry out considerable illegal acts in the future and is therefore dangerous for the general public”. A final assessment is of course reserved for the renowned psychiatric expert Matthias Hollweg, who examined the accused and will monitor the entire process.
The media interest in the process is great, apparently because of the parallels to the fatal knife attack in Würzburg on June 25, 2021. There, too, the perpetrator is said to have been a mentally ill immigrant who shouted “Allahu Akbar” during his crime – a clue for the investigators on possible Islamist motives. Whether this is really the case remains to be seen – in Würzburg as in Munich.
Shortly after 9 a.m., the accused is taken to hearing room A 101. A rather short, not too strong man, white sneakers, jeans, light brown sweater, the dark hair on the back of the head and on the sides shaved. Next to him is an interpreter who translates into Dari, one of the two official languages in Afghanistan. His public defender, Ruth Beer, has taken her seat behind him.
Beer makes a statement at the beginning of the negotiation. In doing so, she essentially admits the allegations against her client. On one central point, however, she contradicts: “The crime has no Islamist background.” Ali Reza K. has “no contact with IS”, that is to say with the terrorist organization Islamic State, and has not shouted “Alahu Akbar”, as the investigators claim. Beer names another motive for the act. Your client suffers from “delusions”.
For some time before the crime, he had been obsessed with the idea that the Italian Mafia had “killed his family” and “kidnapped his sister”. For this reason, Ali Reza K. had even gone to the Munich-Laim police station and tried to report the crimes that only existed in his imagination. “The police did not help him,” said Beer. However, her client had later been hospitalised for several days in a Munich clinic because of his massive delusions and fears.
The defence lawyer confirmed that Ali Reza K. had primarily targeted “Christians” in his – ultimately failed – assassination attempt. He had assumed that members of the Italian mafia were Christian. According to Beer, he wanted to “take revenge” for the alleged atrocities against his family. In doing so, he had acted on his own initiative and spontaneously.
How dangerous the situation was for the victims whose cars the accused wanted to hijack was made clear by an elderly gentleman, a retired engineer with glasses and a dark blue jacket. He was at the wheel of an Audi Q3, with his wife next to him. The couple was waiting at a red light. Suddenly they noticed a man who broke away from the group of pedestrians and came straight towards them. “He was shaking the handle of the driver’s door and kept hitting the window. He was shouting as he did so,” the witness reported. Regarding the attacker’s condition, he said, “He was out of control and became more and more aggressive.”
He and his wife were briefly “in shock”, the man said, but then he reacted quickly and “just accelerated”. Although the traffic lights were still red, he drove through the intersection. “That was real luck,” said the witness. In the rear-view mirror, he saw the assassin attacking another car.
Other victims also described frightening scenes at the start of the trial. The accused had tried to “tear open the car door” and “hit the window very hard”. When the man approached their car, they heard loud banging noises and were frightened. A young woman actually wanted to get out of the car, but her mother, who was also in the car, strongly advised her not to – “a good and correct decision”, as the presiding judge remarked.
The fact that the accused was caught quickly and could not carry out his “bloodthirsty plan” (quote from the judge) was due to a fortunate circumstance: two plainclothes police officers were observing the area around the crime scene. From their car, they were on the lookout for tyre thieves who had been causing insecurity in the neighbourhood for some time.
Suddenly they saw a man – the now accused – walking very fast past their car, a long knife hanging from his belt. The officers got out and told Ali Reza K. to stop “immediately” and lie down. They also threatened to use firearms. The man only reacted to the second demand. The police officers tied him up and took the knife from him.
During his first brief questioning, the man who was overpowered stated that he wanted to “do it for the IS” – i.e. the Islamic State – and “take revenge on Christians”. He confirmed to a police officer that he had shouted “Alahu Akbar” during the crime. Investigators did not find any evidence of actual contacts with terrorists, for example on the man’s mobile phone. In his statements to the police, Ali Reza K. also mentioned the alleged persecution of his family by the Italian mafia. Some of his relatives had been abducted to Greece and the Netherlands and “beheaded” there, he said.
Despite the heated situation, the Afghan seemed strangely calm and composed after his arrest, almost relaxed. A police officer in court: “He was smiling”.
Ali Reza K.’s plan to kill numerous people in the centre of Munich failed and is therefore not being prosecuted by the justice system. The charges are limited to “attempted robbery against motorists” in four cases and damage to property.
The personal circumstances of the accused were not discussed on the first day of the trial, such as questions about his arrival in Germany and his asylum status. This is to be made up for at the continuation of the trial next Monday.
Chrissie01 says
aren’t we ever lucky with our psychiatrists? For a couple of bucks they come up with something that – sure thing – is politically correct. I’ve seen them in action. Some of them are even aware of what they are doing.
The man has paranoid schizophrenia with delusions…Aha!
I would like to know – and I am sure many do – what exatly the contents of his paranoia and delusions are. It may have something to do with a certain religion, I would suggest, they are the normal traits of a faithful follower of this said religion.
I do not exactly know where the origin of this cover-up strategy are, but I would point at certain NGOs,
Same people that finance publications like these
Vhttps://www.academia.edu/38625485/HATE_TRACK_TRACKING_AND_MONITORING_RACIST_SPEECH_ONLINE_i_Hate_Track_Tracking_And_Monitoring_Racist_Speech_Online?email_work_card=view-paper
libertyORdeath says
Who the hell is making these diagnosis???
If you have the wherewithal to plan and carry out vehicular jihad I doubt you’re mentally unfit to pay for such a crime.
Chrissie01 says
you have paranoid schizophrenia. Your cognitions are intact, nevertheless they – and all your intelligence – is subordinate under one delusional idea…
That’s how it goes. It’s easy.
Hoi Polloi says
It’s interesting that politicians find it more to their advantage to admit that they have happily and illegally opened borders to a slew of mental patients that they have unleashed on citizens, rather than admit the truth about the real supremacist ideology. Interesting, dangerous, and portentous.
Chrissie01 says
do not worry. They have it all in place. A host of people are putting together KI-based tools against hate speech.
Hate speech being a synonym for criticism of Islam.
That’s the actual insanity.
Keith O says
I wonder if the mental illness gambit will be used by the Dumbocraps when they are eventually held to account for their crimes against America?
Crusades Were Right says
[The defence lawyer confirmed that Ali Reza K. had primarily targeted “Christians” in his – ultimately failed – assassination attempt. He had assumed that members of the Italian mafia were Christian.]
Oh, I see… his targeting of Christians proves his motive had nothing to do with Islam. lol
And as for the “Christianity” of the Mafia, maybe he got that idea from Hollywood? Remember the “baptism” scene in “The Godfather”, say? Personally, I felt that it demonstrated the HYPOCRISY of a gangster, rather than Christianity; but of course, in Islam, “hypocrisy” has a different meaning.
Jim says
The problem is that so many Muslims are mentally ill. Should there not be restrictions on populations of mentally ill people trying to flood into a country? Should they not all be screened for mental illness before being allowed into countries? What do the authorities want, maybe to turn their country into an insane asylum. Is that what asylum seekers want?
Johnny B says
It would be an extremely interesting study to follow up on all these mentally ill persons – who apparently imagine they’re Muslim terrorists – become “normal” and released back into society a few years later.
gravenimage says
Germany: Muslim migrant screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ who tried to run down pedestrians is ‘mentally ill’
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So the fact that he was screaming “Allahu Ackbar!” is irrelevant? I guess he might just as easily have been announcing that he is Napoleon or ranting about seeing pink elephants…sarc/off
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Wonder what would happen if a non-muslim screamed “Allahu Ackbar!”, used as “cover” before a criminal act.
Would the defense still use the “mental illness” ploy?
OLD GUY says
Not surprised that mental illness is so common in the male muslim population. When you start indoctrinating hate and violence at 4yrs. old you end up with men who believe this is how life works. It’s called BRAINWASHING.
Walter Sieruk says
If that Muslim migrant really is “mentally ill” it’s probability because his religion drove his crazy.