Farhad N Gets Life for 2025 Munich Car Ramming That Killed 2 and Injured 40

3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Aug 6

Munich's Higher Regional Court sentenced 25-year-old Afghan national Farhad N to life imprisonment for driving into a 1,400-person trade union rally on 13 February 2025, killing a 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter.
Judges convicted him of two murders, 23 attempted murders and grievous bodily harm, ruling the crime was of particular seriousness—making parole after 15 years far harder.
The court said he deliberately sought to kill people in Germany at random, with prosecutors arguing he saw the attack as a response to Western actions in Gaza and Afghanistan and as an act pleasing to God.
Defence lawyers had sought a 15-year sentence and psychiatric hospitalization, citing signs of schizophrenia; Farhad N can still appeal the verdict.
The case became part of Germany's wider migration debate: Farhad N arrived in 2016, had a rejected asylum claim but remained legally resident, and the attack fed far-right rhetoric around refugees.