Seriously injured child among 36 hurt after Munich car ramming attack

Police say that at least 36 people, two critically, were injured after a car ploughed into a trade union demonstration.

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00:00Several people, including a small child, were seriously injured after a car rammed into a union demonstration on Thursday morning in Munich.

00:09Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Mayor of Munich,

00:15along with members of the Verdi Union that was attacked on Thursday, left flowers at the memorial.

00:2136 people were injured.

00:24The attack comes a week before Germans head to the polls.

00:27German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is vowing faster deportations, although the perpetrator was living and working in Germany legally.

00:35The perpetrator has confessed, according to the senior state prosecutor at a press conference.

00:41The police suspect an Islamist motivation.

00:45Managing Director at Verdi Munich, Claudia Weber, said she was at the demonstration but did not witness the attack.

00:52We are all shocked and affected. It is so bad that it happened.

00:58We have only one thought. We are with the colleagues in the hospital and we hope that everyone will be healthy again.

01:09That is our only concern and our pain now. We are terribly affected.

01:16Liv Stroud, in Munich, for Euronews.

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