
A middle-aged woman clutching an emptied cardboard box stands silently over the latest pile of fresh red flowers to be laid on the roadside near Munich’s central station. A child’s pink dress hangs on the railings above, next to an Algerian flag and a doll. Teddy bears sit among placards calling for peace.
It’s just over a week since a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove his white Mini into a crowd of people attending a trade union demonstration. It was the third suspected terror attack in Germany in as many months.