Confirmation that police are investigating the Munich car crash as a "suspected attack" will fill Germans with dread and add fuel to an already highly emotional election debate.
An attack in Aschaffenburg that killed two in January, where the suspect was also an Afghan man, meant the election debate was already firmly fixed on the topic of migration.
Children among 28 injured as car driven into Munich crowd in 'suspected attack' by Afghan national.
While people take in the horror of what has happened, they are acutely aware that next weekend voters will go to the polls in an election where the far right is currently coming second.
His draft motion only cleared parliament with the help of AfD votes, breaking a long-standing taboo of not working with the far right and prompting hundreds of thousands to take to the streets in protest.
