This morning, at around 10.30 local time, a white Mini Cooper ploughed into a crowd of more than 1,000 people in central Munich, south Germany. According to the local authorities, at least 28 people have been injured, with several suffering life-threatening injuries, including a child. Pictures from the scene show a battered car, with a smashed windscreen, surrounded by debris and discarded first aid material.
According to Bavarian police, the driver of the car, who was arrested at the scene, is a 24-year-old Afghan failed asylum seeker. The man is reportedly known to the police and has a history of drug and theft-related offenses. The German newspaper Der Spiegel is reporting that the driver of the car applied for asylum after arriving in the country in 2016. His deportation from the country was reportedly suspended – although no explanation is given as to why that might have been.
Bavaria’s state president Markus Söder has claimed that ‘it is suspected of being an attack’.
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