(13 Feb 2025)
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Munich – 13 February 2025
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Police removed a damaged Mini from the scene of an incident in Munich on Thursday, after the driver ploughed into a labor union demonstration, injuring at least 28 people including children, authorities said.
Officials said it was believed to be an attack. The suspect, an Afghan asylum-seeker, was arrested.
The incident follows a series of attacks involving immigrants in recent months that have pushed migration to the forefront of the campaign for Germany’s Feb. 23 election.
Participants in a demonstration by the service workers’ union ver.di were walking along a street at about 10:30 a.m. when the car overtook a police vehicle following the gathering, accelerated and ploughed into the back of the group, police said.
Officers arrested the suspect after firing a shot at the car, deputy police chief Christian Huber said.
He added that at least 28 people were believed to be injured, some of them seriously.
The suspect was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker, Huber said.
Bavaria’s state interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said the man was known to authorities in connection with theft and drug offenses, but didn’t give further details.
He said officials believe the protest was likely targeted at random.
The state’s justice minister, Georg Eisenreich, said a prosecutors’ department that investigates extremism and terror was looking into the case.
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