German forensic police combed the area outside a restaurant in the western city of Muenster on Sunday as they tried to establish the motive of a man who drove a camper van into a group of diners, killing two before shooting himself dead. Authorities have said the man was a German citizen and that there was "no indication of an Islamist background", but investigators have not said what motivated the attack. The Interior Ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia, where Muenster is located, would neither confirm nor deny the Sueddeutsche report. The attack came a year to the day of a truck attack in Stockholm in which a suspected Islamist militant sympathiser links killed five people. French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: "All my thoughts are with the victims of the attack in Muenster.

Source: dna April 08, 2018 13:41 UTC