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He is also charged with attempted murder and dangerous bodily injury in 18 other cases. According to the decision of the investigating judge of the district court Trier Therefore, the 51-year-old man is detained. Due to signs of possible mental illness, placement in a closed psychiatric facility was also an option.
The man in the circle TrierIn the prosecution’s opinion, Saarburg is “urgently suspected” of driving a high-speed sports car with a high-powered sports car “indiscriminately and deliberately” towards and on bystanders. His intention was “to kill or at least injure as many people as possible,” he said in a statement. The man was detained and arrested just four minutes after police were alerted.
Five people died in the pedestrian zone on Tuesday: three women aged 25, 52 and 73, as well as a 45-year-old man and his nine-and-a-half-week-old daughter. Another 18 people were injured in the riot, six seriously. The number of injured has increased since Tuesday night because there were still late registrations. The baby’s mother survived and, according to authorities, is in the hospital as is her one and a half year old son.
According to the prosecutor, the reason for the act is not yet clear. In his interrogations, the man made “changing and partly incomprehensible information,” investigators said. Until now, neither an understandable motive for the crime nor details about the course of events can be derived from this. The questioning of the man would continue for the next few days.
There are no indications “for political, religious or similar reasons”. The defendant was under the influence of alcohol.
In Austria, the event brought back memories of the uproar on June 20, 2015 in the center of Graz. A 26-year-old boy killed three people, including a four-year-old boy. Another 36 pedestrians were injured, some seriously.
