Some 28 people were injured when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people in Munich in what the state premier said was probably an attack on Thursday, as the German city prepared to host a top-level security conference.
Police in the southern city said a car approached police vehicles stopped by a protest held by the Verdi union before speeding up and hitting people.
The suspected attack throws security back into the spotlight before a federal election next week following several other violent attacks.
It also came hours before leading international figures, including US Vice-President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, were in the city for the high-profile Munich Security Conference, which starts on Friday.
“It was probably an attack,” Bavaria state premier Markus Soeder told reporters.
Bavaria’s interior minister said he did not suspect there was a connection to the conference.