Some 28 people were injured when a 24 -year -old Afghan asylum seeker led a car to a crowd of people in Munich in what the Prime Minister of State was probably an attack on Thursday, while the German city was Prepares to accommodate high -level conference security.
Police in the south of the city said that a car was approaching police vehicles stopped by a demonstration held by the Verdi union before accelerating and hitting people.
The suspected attack gives security under the spotlight before a federal election next week after several other violent attacks.
He also came a few hours before directing international figures, including US vice-president JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, were in the city for the high-level Munich security conference, which begins on Friday.
“It was probably an attack,” the journalists said, the Bavaria Prime Minister, told journalists.
The Interior Minister of Bavaria said that he did not suspect that there was a link with the conference.
Police said that she had owned the driver and did not consider her threatening other threats.
A passerby said he had witnessed the incident of a window of a neighboring office building. The car, a Mini Cooper, had made a way between police vehicles and then accelerated, he said.
Another witness said she saw part of the incident of a building. The car had accelerated and hit several people in the crowd, she said.
The people of the crowd participated in a strike held by the workers’ union in the Verdi public sector, whose chef, Frank Werneke, said a shock, but said he had no more details.
The police set up a rally point for witnesses to Loewenbraekeller, one of the oldest beer rooms in Munich.
The incident occurred about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the place of the security conference.
