German police on Sunday said they did not see an extremist motive behind a ramming attack with a van that claimed two lives and placed the driver’s mental health issues in the foreground. There are “no indications of a political motive,” said Hajo Kuhlisch, chief of police in western city Muenster where the attack took place. A source close to the investigation told AFP that incidents related to the perpetrator’s mental health had affected his family since 2015, and that he said in late March he wanted to commit suicide. Broadcaster NTV reported he had threatened family members with an axe in 2014 and 2015. Despite investigators’ increased certainty about the perpetrator’s mental health, “it will take a few more hours and days” before the case is fully cleared up, North Rhine-Westphalia state interior minister Herbert Reul said Sunday.

Source: Hindustan Times April 08, 2018 12:45 UTC