A car struck a group of people on Thursday, February 13, who were injured on Thursday, February 13, of which were injured, some of whom seriously in Munich, Germany, where the conference on security bringing together the day of world diplomacy. Police from this city, of which important enrollments have been deployed on the spot, could not immediately say if the driver of the vehicle, who was arrested, had acted voluntarily or not. But the government of Bavaria spoke shortly after a “probable attack”, the police saying that the driver was a 24 -year -old Afghan asylum seeker.
This act intervenes comes a few weeks after a deadly attack on the ray car in Magdeburg, which shaken Germany, and in the middle of the election campaign for the legislative elections on February 23, in which internal security issues play a first role plan.
Demonstration
“An investigation is underway to determine the context and the way it has happened,” said a spokesman for the police present on Thomas Schelshorn. “The driver of the car was able to be neutralized on the spot, there is no longer any violence to be feared from him,” added the police.
According to the police, a demonstration at the call of the Verdi service union took place when the group was struck the driver was driving a mini cooper, the media stressed. An AFP journalist on site could see this cream color vehicle, as well as a wounded still aware being transported in an ambulance before being evacuated. An overturned stroller was also visible on the roadway, strewn with objects following the passage of the car, obviously at high speed.
All this at a time when the Bavarian capital is preparing to welcome until Sunday of senior political leaders around the world, including the American vice-president JD Vance, for its traditional conference, one of the central themes will be the war triggered by Russia in Ukraine.
Attack of attacks
This act also took place within two weeks of anticipated legislative elections in Germany and in the context of several recent deadly attacks in this country that has aroused great emotion. At the end of December, an attack on the teller car on a Christmas market in Magdeburg (east) had killed six people and some 300 injured.
In Solingen (west), an assault with a knife this time attributed to a Syrian during a municipal party last summer had cost three people. And another attack with a knife, whose alleged perpetrator was an Afghan in an irregular situation and suffering from psychiatric disorders, left two dead, including a two -year -old boy.
These attacks have placed internal and migratory security issues in the heart of the campaign and fed the progression of the far -right AFD party, hostile to migrants. This training is credited by 20% in the polls for the legislative election of February 23, behind the conservatives (30%) but in front of the center left of Olaf Scholz and the Greens.