A car ploughed into a crowd of people in the German city of Munich on Thursday and has left at least 28 people injured, including several children. The driver of the car, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, has been arrested, as confirmed by the police, who also reported that two of the injured are in serious condition.
Car ploughs into crowd, leaves dozens of victims at German Christmas market
The attack, which took place on the eve of the Security Conference in the city, occurred at around 11:00 a.m. during a trade union protest by public employees in the area of Dachauerstrasse and Seidelstrasse, near the central railway station. According to the police spokesman, the vehicle approached the demonstration from the rear, overtook the police cars escorting it and rammed into the end of the march.
The driver was then arrested after officers fired shots at his car, a Mini Cooper. The man, with a history of robbery and drug-related offenses, is Afghan, as was the man arrested for a knife attack in late January in a park in Germany, which left one dead and two seriously injured.
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Afghani illegal immigrant arrested after ploughing into the public in the German capital, Munich.
Dozens injured, including children.
The Afghan was known to authorities for committing crimes, but never deported! pic.twitter.com/Dn9hzUjolH
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Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder said that they are still investigating the details and examining the event, but that the modus operandi is similar to other deliberate attacks, so it is presumably an “attack”. The investigations have been taken over by the Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism of the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the alleged perpetrator had posted Islamist content on social networks shortly before the attack. Still, the authorities have not confirmed this information and have not yet given details about a possible motivation.
It is known that the detainee was born in Kabul in 2001 and arrived in Germany at the age of 15. His asylum application was rejected but, due to the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, he had the status of “tolerated”, i.e. someone who lacks a formal residence permit but who will not be expelled for the time being.
Verdi Demo in München.
Auto rast in die Demo. pic.twitter.com/cLBHaDebfi— AlternativeMitte (@ZamirSh11842484) February 13, 2025
The demonstration against which he struck brought together more than 1.5 thousand public workers who had gone on strike to demand a wage increase and a rise in bonuses. In the Bavarian capital, a Security Conference will start this Friday, bringing together heads of state and government from all over the world, and in ten days, legislative elections will be held in Germany, which have already been marked by the issues of migration and the rise of the far-right.
The German Chancellor, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, has called for the justice system to act with the full weight of the law against the perpetrator. “Whoever commits crimes in Germany must not only be punished and go to jail, he must also count on losing his residence permit,” he has asserted, recalling that his government has managed to organize a deportation flight of convicted criminals to Afghanistan.
“It is a black day for Munich,” said, for his part, the mayor of the Bavarian capital, Dieter Reiter, who pointed out that among the demonstrators there were colleagues of his from the municipal administration. “The chief of police has just informed me that a vehicle ran over a group of people and, unfortunately, many people were injured, including children. I am deeply shocked. My thoughts are with the injured,” he told the Bild newspaper.
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