{"id":2402204,"date":"2025-02-13T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-28-are-hurt-as-a-driver-plows-into-a-demonstration-in-germany-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:50:32","slug":"at-least-28-are-hurt-as-a-driver-plows-into-a-demonstration-in-germany-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-28-are-hurt-as-a-driver-plows-into-a-demonstration-in-germany-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 28 are hurt as a driver plows into a demonstration in Germany &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fat-least-28-are-hurt-as-a-driver-plows-into-a-demonstration-in-germany-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2402204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a tragic incident in\u2064 Munich, Germany, at least 28 people were injured, including children, when a driver plowed a car\u2063 into \u2062a labor union exhibition. The suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan\u200b asylum-seeker, has been arrested, and authorities believe the act was likely targeted. This attack comes amidst \u2062heightened concerns over immigration-related violence, following a series of similar incidents that have influenced political debates in the lead-up to \u2063Germany&#8217;s \u200belections.Bavarian \u200bofficials are calling for\u200d stronger measures on immigration, while the Chancellor&#8217;s government maintains\u2063 that they\u2062 have already implemented notable changes to address irregular \u200cmigration. The \u2064motive for the\u200b attack\u2064 is still under investigation, and security in munich is heightened due to the upcoming Munich Security Conference.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">At least 28 are hurt as a driver plows into a demonstration in Germany<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1992974\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>BERLIN (AP) &mdash;<\/strong> A driver drove a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">car<\/a> into a labor union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">children<\/a>, authorities said. Officials said it was believed to be an attack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The suspect, an Afghan asylum-seeker, was arrested. The incident follows a series of attacks involving immigrants in recent months that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-merz-scholz-election-migration-far-right-da12c67a1eaa66301d38be03e49f4136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">have pushed migration<\/a>&nbsp;to the forefront of the campaign for Germany&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-election-scholz-merz-parliament-a3bf9a455a22d1d622abcc04da40269e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Feb. 23 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in a demonstration by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-trump-says-dnc-pro-palestinian-protesters-represent-modern-day-democratic-party-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Eric Trump says DNC pro...Palestinian protesters represent \u2018modern...day Democratic Party\u2019 ... Washington Examiner\">service workers&#038;rsquo<\/a>; union ver.di were walking along a street at about 10:30 a.m. when the car overtook a police vehicle following the gathering, accelerated and plowed into the back of the group, police said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292730\/all-executive-orders-actions-trump-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FULL LIST OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested the suspect after firing a shot at the car, deputy police chief Christian Huber said. He added that at least 28 people were believed to be injured, some of them seriously. A damaged Mini was seen at the scene, along with debris including shoes.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was a 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Afghan<\/a> asylum-seeker, Huber said. Bavaria&rsquo;s state interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said the man was known to authorities in connection with theft and drug offenses, but didn&rsquo;t give further details. He said officials believe the protest was likely targeted at random.<\/p>\n<p>The state&rsquo;s justice minister, Georg Eisenreich, said a prosecutors&rsquo; department that investigates extremism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">terrorism<\/a> was looking into the case.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We feel with the victims, we are praying for the victims &mdash; we hope very much that they all make it,&rdquo; Bavarian governor Markus S&ouml;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-mcconnell-gop-to-vote-no-on-dem-proposed-3-5t-budget-bill\/\" title=\"Sen. McConnell: GOP to vote no on Dem...proposed .5T budget bill\">der told reporters<\/a> at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is suspected to be an attack &mdash; a lot points to that,&rdquo; S&ouml;der added.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Dieter Reiter said that children were among those injured.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A string of recent attacks<\/h2>\n<p>The Munich incident comes three weeks after a two-year-old boy and a man were killed in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-stabbing-attack-bavaria-3803c0126616a9c93c143891d727ea8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">knife attack<\/a>&nbsp;in Aschaffenburg, also in Bavaria. An Afghan whose asylum application was rejected was the suspect in that attack, which propelled migration to the center of the German election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Aschaffenburg attack followed knife attacks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-mannheim-stabbing-police-officer-death-a66c14970a53464aff0c1c77a7196481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">in Mannheim<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-attack-solingen-festival-a149974357736806f880df798a291552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Solingen last year<\/a>&nbsp;in which the suspects were immigrants from Afghanistan and Syria, respectively &mdash; in the latter case, also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-chancellor-vows-increased-deportations-after-muslim-asylum-seekers-alleged-deadly-attack\/\" title=\"German Chancellor Vows Increased Deportations After Muslim Asylum Seeker&#039;s Alleged Deadly Attack\">rejected asylum-seeker<\/a> who was supposed to have left the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the December Christmas market car ramming in Magdeburg,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-christmas-market-attack-magdeburg-f14b036514e9ae2d4ca013cf45eac18f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the suspect was a Saudi doctor<\/a>&nbsp;who previously had come to various regional authorities&rsquo; attention.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Demands for political consequences<\/h2>\n<p>Germany&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">main opposition conservative bloc<\/a>, in which S&ouml;der is a prominent figure, has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-aschaffenburg-stabbing-election-f793a2cfd4f2601ebbd222107f0be634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">demanded a tougher approach<\/a>&nbsp;to irregular migration, calling for many more people to be turned back at the border and for an increase in deportations. Curbing migration is also a core issue for the far-right&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-far-right-afd-election-migration-weidel-53ed34f57556ad394c53868726d47194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Alternative for Germany<\/a>, which polls put in second place behind the conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is more evidence that we can&rsquo;t go from attack to attack and show dismay, thank police for their deployment,&rdquo; S&ouml;der said. &ldquo;This is not the first such act &hellip; We are determined that something must change in Germany, and quickly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz&rsquo;s government said it already has done a lot to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-border-controls-extended-migration-election-316a0b1de7d57acb0826a12a7a9cece0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">reduce irregular migration<\/a>, and that the opposition&rsquo;s plans are incompatible with German and European Union law.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz described the latest incident as &ldquo;a terrible attack.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Anyone who commits crimes in Germany will not just be punished severely and have to go to prison, but must expect that he cannot continue his stay in Germany &mdash; and that also goes for countries that it is very difficult to send people back to,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The chancellor noted that his government deported convicted criminals to Afghanistan on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-afghanistan-deportations-solingen-710560de4b2855dfaae6275d090111cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">a flight in August<\/a>&nbsp;and is working to do so again &mdash; &ldquo;and not just once, but continually.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Herrmann said the Munich suspect&rsquo;s asylum application apparently had been rejected but it hadn&rsquo;t been possible to deport him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bavarian capital will see heavy security in the coming days because the three-day Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of international foreign and security policy officials, opens on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Herrmann said authorities do not believe the car ramming was connected to the conference, but they still need to determine the motive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1992974\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1992974\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 28 injured as driver crashes into protest in Munich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":2402205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/munich-car-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8151,25166,3946,8638,4133],"class_list":["post-2402204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-accident","tag-demonstration","tag-germany","tag-injuries","tag-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/munich-car-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402208,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402204\/revisions\/2402208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}