The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox Sign up today! Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email

The motor ploughed into the building in the Northern German town of Verden.

It smashed through the hall’s glass facade and sparked a fire inside.

Damages costing hundreds of thousands resulted from the blaze.

(Image: DPA/ALAMY) (Image: DPA/ALAMY)

Germany’s Bild newspaper described how the incident this morning unfolded.

It said the attacker drove down a narrow road leading to the hall and crashed into it.

He reportedly then climbed from the car injured, soaked the vehicle in gasoline and set it ablaze.

The man allegedly told police: "I am responsible for what happened here. There is another gas bottle in the car."

But the man also said he “did not want to hurt anyone” and apparently did not resist police officers.

Under interrogation, the man blamed his actions on a "wrong decision" by town hall bosses, Bild reports.

Yet the Hannoversche Allgemeine newspaper, citing police, reported that the attacker’s motive was unclear.

Mayor Lutz Brockmann said: "And this is what happens in Verden. Never would I have thought such a thing possible. "