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The driver has been arrested and the investigation continues. The man is said to be a 51-year-old German. It is said that he hit people indiscriminately with his SUV.
9:50 pm, December 1, 2020
A man made a fuss in a sports car in the center of Trier killed five people, including an nnine month old baby. 14 persons partially suffered severe injury. Immediately after the crime, the police arrested a 51-year-old German from the Trier-Saarburg district who, according to the prosecutor, may have a mental illness. The suspect was drunk but could be questioned.
“Zigzag lines” driven
Initially there was no indication of a political background. The motive of the perpetrator is unclear. “This event is shaking the whole of Germany,” Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD) said Tuesday night in Trier. The perpetrator took specific measures and drew “zigzag lines” to inflict suffering. That happened to a very bad extent.
The victims include in addition to Baby a 73-year-old woman, one 25 years and a 45 year old man of Trier. The mother of the baby is according to the authorities in the hospital. Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her concern in a statement.
We detained one person and a vehicle was impounded. According to initial findings, two people have died. Keep avoiding the city center. #Trier # TR0112
– Trier Police (@PolizeiTrier) December 1, 2020
The uproar lasted four minutes
The first emergency call was received at 1:47 pm, as Franz-Dieter Ankner, vice president of the Trier police headquarters, said. The uproar in several streets lasted four minutes before the suspect who resisted was arrested. Eyewitnesses reported that people were thrown into the air at the scene of the incident near Porta Nigra, the world-famous city gate since Roman times and the symbol of the city.
“We have a clear picture of the suspect,” said Lewentz, who spoke of a terrible day. Ankner added that the man had spent the last few days in a car. According to Chief Prosecutor Peter Fritzen, there are Evidence of a mental illness. A doctor had examined the man and a psychiatric report would probably be commissioned. They were with the man 1.4 per thousand of breath alcohol detected.
The investigations are for murder in four cases and dangerous bodily harm in several other cases. “We assume that he acted insidiously in the attack in the city center, used the vehicle as a weapon and therefore acted with means dangerous to the public,” Fritzen said.
“The news from Trier makes me very saddened,” Chancellor Merkel said in a statement that government spokesman Steffen Seibert posted on Twitter on Tuesday. “My condolences to the families of the people who were so suddenly and violently torn from their lives. But I also think of those who have suffered serious injuries and I wish them great strength ”.
Round 300 helpers fire brigade, rescue services and other relief organizations in action. This worked very well in the process, the victims were taken care of quickly, reported Trier Professional Fire Chief Andreas Kirchartz. Clinics in the city immediately switched to emergency operation, patients could have been taken there immediately. Lewentz also said that around 450 police officers on duty were.
At night, citizens lit candles and small tea lights flickered on the Porta Nigra. Eyewitnesses, visibly shaken, described how people were thrown up in the air in the terrible incident. “It’s unbelievable. We are stunned,” said a resident of a house that borders the pedestrian zone the perpetrator was driving through.
“Trier’s blackest day after World War II”
Trier Mayor Wolfram Leibe, who speaks of “an image of horror”, says: “I think it is the darkest day in Trier after World War II.” A Trier-born man allegedly killed Trier. The city will accept this trauma. “I want to know why someone does that,” Leibe emphasizes. “I don’t know if I’ll get an answer to that.”
Trier, with around 112,000 inhabitants, is the oldest city in Germany and is also known as Karl Marx’s birthplace (1818-1883). Trier rarely makes international headlines, especially not for capital crimes.
In February, a 29-year-old German had deliberately driven his car into the crowd in Volkmarsen, north Hesse. Dozens of people were injured. In 2019, a 50-year-old man had beaten people on New Year’s Eve in Bottrop. He was admitted to closed psychiatry. In 2018, a man ran into a group with his caravan in Münster, five people died. Perpetrator shot himself, investigators assume mental illness.
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