The authorities believe the crash, into a union’s strike-day demonstration, was a deliberate attack. The suspect is a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was known to the police.

A motorist injured 28 people Thursday in Munich when he plowed into a crowd of union demonstrators, German police said.

Local media has reported that the driver of a white Mini Cooper that smashed into a crowd of demonstrators in Munich was an Afghan national, and that the act was deliberate