EU migration crisis

Europe has been on high alert for most of 2016, with bloody militant attacks striking Paris and Brussels

DPA news agency said that the man behind the wheel was an asylum seeker from Afghanistan or Pakistan

The man was detained in the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek on Monday

Up to 300,000 asylum seekers are expected to arrive Europe this year, says Federal Office for Migrants and Refugees

'dozens of people crammed into storage rooms without space to lie down.' : UN staff

The practice of religious asylum had been largely forgotten until last year

Hungary is part of EU's Schengen zone but police carry out regular identity checks on motorway to Austrian border

'Criminal network was dismantled for illegally transferring migrants from Greece to western Europe on small aircraft'

Austria has already come under fire from European Commission and human rights groups for capping its refugee intake

Bavarian district chief calls the incident "act of desperation"