On Thursday, a driver drove a car into a union demonstration in central -Munich Munich and injured at least 28 people, including children, the authorities said.
The participants in a demonstration by the service workers walked a road around 10:30 a.m. when the car overtook, accelerated and plowed a police vehicle after the meeting and plowed in the back of the group.
The officers arrested the suspect after firing a shot on the car, said deputy chief of police Christian Huber. He added that at least 28 people were injured, some of them seriously.
A damaged mini was seen at the crime scene together with rubble, including shoes.
“We pray for the victims – we very much hope that they all make it,” the Bavarian governor Markus Söder told reporters at the scene.
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said that children were among the injured.
The suspect was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, said Huber.
Bayer’s state minister, Joachim Herrmann, confirmed that the man was an asylum seeker. He said officials believe that the protest will probably random.
The state minister of the state, Georg Eisenreich, said a public prosecutor who examined extremism and terrorism, examined the case.
Attack that is probably not related to the international conference
The incident follows a number of attacks in which immigrants have been involved in the past few months who brought migration to the foreground of the election campaign for the election of Germany on February 23.
Three weeks ago, a two -year -old boy and a man were killed in a knife attack in Aschaffenburg, also in Bavaria. An Afghan, the asylum application of which was rejected, was the suspect in this attack.
Last year, knife attacks in Mannheim and Solingen followed, in which the suspicious immigrants were from Afghanistan or Syria.
In a Christmas market car in Magdeburg in December, the suspect was a Saudi doctor who had previously come to the attention of the regional authorities.
Germany’s most important opposition -conservative block, in which Söder is an outstanding personality, has required a harder approach for irregular migration, which demands that many other people are turned back on the border and the deportations are increased.
The containment of the migration is also a central topic for the right -wing extremist alternative for Germany (AfD), which took second place behind the conservatives. Other parties of the Federal Party still have to be part of a coalition with AfD, which is observed by domestic secret services for the alleged legal extremism, allegations that the party rejects.
“A terrible attack”
The government of Center-Link Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that she had already contributed a lot to reduce irregular migration and that the opposition’s plans are not compatible with the German and European Union Act.
Scholz described the recent incident as a “terrible attack”.
“Anyone who commits crimes in Germany is not only violently punished and has to go to prison, but also have to expect that he cannot continue his stay in Germany – and that also applies to the countries that it is very difficult to to send back “. he said.
Scholz found that his government had deported criminals to Afghanistan in August and was working on doing this again – “and not just once, but continuously.”
The Bavarian capital will result in a high level of security in the coming days, since the three-day Munich security conference, an annual meeting of international officials from foreign and security policy, will open on Friday.
Herrmann said the authorities did not believe that the car ramming was connected to the conference, but they still have to determine the motif.
