Germanistan : Syrian terrorist arrested after hijacked truck rammed into traffic, injuring 9

German authorities have arrested a military-aged migrant man from Syria after a hijacked lorry was driven at speed into a line of other cars in Limburg, near Frankfurt, on Monday night.

Nine individuals were injured in the suspected terror attack. The suspect is a 32-year-old Syrian male named ‘Mohammed O.’ who is said to be known to police for previous criminal offenses.

According to a report from the German news magazine Focus Online, the Syrian migrant does not possess a residence permit to live in Germany. The details surrounding the hijacking are still vague, but initial reports suggest the attacker tried several times to steal a lorry before he was successful. 

The Frankfurter Neue Presse reported that someone who had witnessed the ramming take place had initially tried to help the driver of the truck, thinking he had been the victim of an accident, but then stepped back after he found the man speaking Arabic and mumbling about Allah.

Although police were able to arrest the truck’s driver immediately after the ramming, they refuse to speculate on a motive behind the attack. Several German news outlets do say that the attack is being investigated as a terror attack, however.


This is far from the first time that a vehicle-ramming incident like this one has occurred in Europe. 
In 2016, 86 people were killed and over 400 injured when a radical Islamic terrorist drove an 18-ton truck into a mass of people celebrating the French national day near the waterfront.  

Later that year, another Islamist terrorist drove a lorry into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12.