Some 28 people were injured when a 24 -year -old Afghan asylum applicant led a car to a multitude of people in Munich in what the state prime minister said it was probably an attack on Thursday, while the German city prepared to organize a security high level. conference.
The police in the city of the South said that a car approached the police vehicles arrested for a demonstration made by the Union of Verdi before accelerating and hitting the people. A shot was shot at the suspect and it was not clear if it was injured, the police added.
The officers arrested the 24 -year -old driver. Your reason was not clear.
The alleged attack throws security again at the center of attention before a federal election next week after several other violent attacks.
It also occurred hours before the main international figures, including the vice president of the United States, JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, were in the city for the high -profile Munich Security Conference, which begins on Friday.
“It was probably an attack,” Journalists told the state prime minister of Bavaria, Markus Sobeer.
The Interior Minister of Bavaria said he did not suspect that there was a connection with the conference. Police said they had arrested the driver and did not consider him to represent any additional threat.
A passerby said he witnessed the incident from a window of a neighboring office building. The car, a Mini Cooper, made way between police vehicles and then accelerated, he said.
Another witness said he had seen part of the incident from a building. The car had accelerated and hit several people in the crowd, he said.
People in the crowd participated in a strike held by the Verdi public sector workers whose leader, Frank Werneke, expressed his shock, but said he had no more details.
The police established a meeting point for witnesses in Loewenbraeukeller, one of the oldest beer corridors in Munich.
The incident occurred about 1.5 kilometers from the security conference place.
