Driver Arrested After Car Crash at Demonstration in Munich

Several people were injured when a car crashed into a union demonstration in Munich on Thursday, and the driver was taken into custody, the police said.

The police have not said whether the crash, which took place a few hundred yards north of the city’s central police station, was an accident or a deliberate attack.

The crash happened a day before the opening of the Munich Security Conference, which is being held less than a mile from the site of the crash and attracts high-profile participants and journalists from around the world.

Sandra Demmelhuber, a journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Bavarian public broadcaster, was at the site and described a chaotic scene.

“There is a person lying on the street and a young man was led away by the police. People sitting, crying and shaking on the ground,” she wrote on X.

The demonstration had been organized by Verdi, one of Germany’s largest unions, which had called a one-day strike for city workers.