München Police accuse ‘Kaos’ of false statements about attacks suspected

München police tried to justify on Friday why false information got the public about the perpetrator of the car attack by pointing “chaos” in the preliminary investigation.

Just hours after the man deliberately hit his car into a trade union in Central Munich, senior officials made as Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann several inaccurate statements about the Afghan suspected legal status in Germany.

Christian Huber from Munich Police headquarters told journalists at a press conference on Friday that during the “chaos phase” of the investigation in immediate demand for the attack, “virulent” had been circulated.

“It takes a certain time to get a picture (of what happened),” Huber said, arguing that it is understandable that people could make mistakes.

Officials declared false that the man had a criminal list of store lifts. In fact, the man worked in retail security and had been quoted as a witness and complaints in a number of such cases.

Obviously, people saw his name attached to these litigation and are assumed without further control that he was an accused – rather than a police capacity – in these cases, Huber said.

He said that while the information came from “Politils”, it is unclear to him who had communicated with whom and how.

Herrmann and others also falsely suggested that the man whose asylum application had been rejected had been obliged to leave Germany and had only stayed because the authorities had not been able to deport him to Afghanistan.

The authorities now say he obtained a valid residence and work permits after his asylum application was rejected.