Dozens were injured when the driver breaks a car in Munich’s protest

More than twenty people, including children, were injured when a car collided with a trade union demonstration in Munich on Thursday, and the driver, a 24 -year -old Afghan asylum seeker who was known to the police, said the authorities said.

The Bavaria ruler, Marcus Soder, said the background of Munich is likely to have the background of the driver of the car in the general elections in Germany in 10 days.

Immigration appeared again as a main pivotal point in the elections, and Chancellor Olaf Schools quickly sought to present a solid line on this issue, which confirmed the sensitivity of the issue of immigration – especially from Afghanistan and Syria -.

“The driver must be punished” he must be punished and he should leave the country.

The extreme right -wing alternative to the Germany Party, which is frequently referred to as AFD, made immigration control better in his campaign, and found success in this approach.

The party has risen in opinion polls, as more than 20 percent of the Germans said that they would vote in its favor, and conservative Christian Democrats, who are trying to keep their progress recently, have recently called for more striking controls on the borders and more deportations.

The accident occurred at 10:30 am on Thursday, according to the police, when the car cruiser passed through the demonstration and entered the crowd. The police released one shot while the man was arrested.

Memories are still new A car attack in DecemberWhen a man went to the Christmas market in Magdburg, in central Germany, injuring up to 300 people and killed six.

The suspect in this case, a 50 -year -old man originally from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, had social media that included jobs criticizing Germany for what he called the authorities tolerance of radical Islam. On social media, the man also expressed his support for AFD.

The photos and videos of the crash on Thursday showed the intense game of Big Mini Cooper, which witnesses said it was motivated to the crowd.

A rescue helicopter and several ambulances were on the site to bring the victims – at least 28 wounded, two of them severely – to the hospital.

The crash site was less than a mile from the location of the Munich Security Conference, which opens tomorrow and attracts prominent participants and journalists from all over the world. The police do not believe that the accident was linked to the conference.

Sandra Demberber, a journalist for Berishher Rondfank, the Bavarian public broadcaster, was at the site of crash and described a chaotic scene.

There is a person lying on the street and the police led a young man. People are sitting, crying and shaking on the ground. Books on x.

The demonstration was organized by Verdi, one of the largest unions in Germany, which was described as a one -day strike for city workers. About 2,500 people were in the gathering when the accident occurred.

The police established a command center in a nearby restaurant and asked witnesses to apply.

Police confirmed that the man who arrested him was known to be involved in slight crimes, such as theft and drugs.

The man is believed to have failed to request asylum, but he had an official situation that was allowed to stay in the country at least temporarily, according to Joachim Hermann, the Minister of Interior in the state of Bavaria. Beyond those details, however, it is not publicly identified.

The country has been shaken by a series of random attacks by male asylum seekers, most of them from Afghanistan and Syria. On Thursday, the trial opened for an Afghan man Accused of stabbing to death a police officerMany others were wounded in Manheim last spring.

The incident comes in the wake of another high -level case that included the Afghan asylum seeker, who killed a young child and a man in a knife attack in the Bavarian town of Ashankurg last month.

Immigration was a constantly prominent issue in German policy, and the timing of this attack, which approached the general elections, gave it an additional resonance.

After its crash on Thursday, Mr. Soder – who ruled his Christian social union, a regional brother -in -law of Christian Democrats, was not lost for decades – any time calling for a call to work.

“This was not the first such work,” Mr. Soder said at the accident site. He added: “Today I feel sympathetic to people, but at the same time I am determined that something should change in Germany quickly.”