Hello, I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spiked, and today I'm joined by Spikes

Germany correspondent, Sabina Beplishbal. Welcome, Sabina. Hi, Fraser. Thanks for having me.

Sabina, Germany has been struck by yet another tragedy. A car attack in Munich has injured,

we believe at least 30 people. It looks to be an Islamist

terror attack. Could you, first of all, just let us know some of the details, what's happened

and what has the reaction been on the ground in Germany? Yeah, it happened late yesterday,

morning. And what it was was the trade union, the service trade union

Verdi had been calling for a day of action and strike.

In fact, I saw them here outside the hospital, so there's hospital workers, media workers,

bus drivers in parts two who were on strike.

And there was meant to be a kind of gathering in Munich as part of that action.

And people were just sort of walking.

There were thousands of people walking towards the central collecting point when they were

protected by a police car, which is normal procedure,

and Germany following the kind of group of people, when somebody came from behind,

the perpetrator in a mini, overtook the police car and drove into the crowd.

And it was the case because there's also kindergarten teachers, families

had been joining that protest. It was actually the fact that a lot of children were in the

back of that group of people. So again, we have children who were attacked, mothers and children. I hear

that one of the most seriously injured is a mother and her baby boy, who people say are not

sure if you'll make it. Yeah, so it's a very, very tragic kind of event. I mean, there's nothing to say, except that it's very tragic, but there's one

little thing to add, which is that the Verdi trade union is a very kind of, the functionary,

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