Munich, Germany, Aug 6, 2026 (AFP) - Afghan man given life sentence for deadly Munich car-ramming

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2026-08-06

A German court on Thursday handed a life jail term to an Afghan man for a car-ramming attack in Munich last year which killed a two-year-old girl and her mother and left dozens injured. The Munich court ruled that the crime carried "particular gravity", a designation that will make it much harder for the 25-year-old man, named only as Farhad N., to ever win release from prison. bur-jsk/fz/phz ...

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