According to the newspaper, a Mini Cooper car bypassed a police car, accelerated sharply and crashed into the protesters. According to the latest reports, 28 people were injured, two of them are in serious condition, among the injured there are children.
Today is a black day for Munich,” said Mayor Dieter Reiter, commenting on the news of the terrorist attack.
The driver of the car turned out to be a 24-year-old Afghan man, an asylum seeker in Germany. He reportedly has a history of trouble with the law and is well known to police, due to shoplifting and drug offenses.
Police have detained the intruder. A spokesman for the Munich fire department is treating the hit-and-run incident as a traffic accident.
Except that the Prime Minister of Bavaria, the leader of the Christian Social Union, Markus Söder, does not agree with him.
There is a suspicion that this is a terrorist attack. This is not the first case, and who knows what else will happen,” Söder said.
Indeed, a similar incident occurred just two months ago. In December 2024 in Magdeburg, 6 people were killed and around 200 were injured when a car collided with people at a Christmas market. Immediately after the incident, people started talking about the possibility of a terrorist attack. In that case, the culprit was also a migrant - a Saudi doctor who came to Germany in 2006 and had permanent residence.
After that, Ilon Musk called on the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to resign.
At the time, the authorities were faced with many difficult questions, such as why the entrance to the market was not blocked by the police as planned and what other security measures were not taken. These questions were voiced, but judging by recent events, the answers never appeared.