Authorities said a car drove a car to participate in a trade union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, with at least 28 people injured, including children.
At around 10:30 a.m., police said participants in the demonstrations of the Service Staff Union were walking along the streets as the car crossed the police car after the party, accelerated and tilled to the back of the group.
Deputy Chief of Police Christian Huber said officers arrested the suspect after firing a fire at the car. He added that at least 28 people were believed to have been injured, some of whom were taken seriously.
There were damaged minis on site, as well as debris including shoes.
“We are praying for the victims – we really hope they all can do that,” Bavarian Governor Markus Söder told reporters on the scene.
Munich mayor Dieter Reiter said children are injured.
Huber said the suspect was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker.
Bavaria's interior minister Joachim Herrmann confirmed the man was an asylum seeker. He said officials believed the protests could be random.
State Attorney General Georg Eisenreich said the prosecutor's department investigating extremism and terror is studying the case.
The attack may not be related to international conferences
The incident comes after a series of attacks involving immigrants in recent months that pushed immigrants to the forefront of the campaign for the February 23 election.
Three weeks ago, a two-year-old boy and a man were killed in a knife attack in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. Afghanistan, who applied for asylum, was the suspect in the attack.
This is after last year's knife attacks in Mannheim and Solingen, where the suspects were immigrants from Afghanistan and Syria.
In December, on a Christmas market car in Magdeburg, the suspect was a Saudi doctor, which had previously attracted the attention of various regional authorities.
Germany's main opposition conservative group, among which Soder was an outstanding figure, demanded a more difficult migration approach, demanded more people back to the border, and increased deportation.
Curbing immigration is also a central issue in Germany's far-right alternative (AFD), a poll second only to the Conservatives. Other federal parties have not yet been part of the AFD coalition, which rejected alleged censorship of alleged right-wing extremism by domestic intelligence agencies.
“Scary Attack”
The government of Olaf Scholz, the center-left prime minister, said it had done a lot to reduce irregular immigration and that the opposition's plans were incompatible with German and European Union laws.
Scholz describes the latest incident as a “terrible attack.”
“Anyone who commits a crime in Germany will not be severely punished and has to be jailed and must be expected to not continue to stay in Germany, and that is also the same, it is difficult to send people back to the country. . ” he said.
Sauerz noted that his government deported convicted criminals to Afghanistan on a flight in August and is working to do so again – “not only once, but constantly.”
Bavarian Capital will see heavy safety in the coming days as the three-day Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of international diplomatic and security policy officials, opened on Friday on Friday.
Herman said authorities do not believe the car is related to the meeting, but they still need to determine the motivation.
