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Why did five people have to die in the center of Trier? Researchers are investigating this question further. The stopped driver must appear before the judge. An entire city is in shock.
After the uproar in downtown Trier with several deaths, the urgent suspect is due to appear before the judge today. According to the prosecution, there are signs of a possible mental illness in the 51-year-old. Therefore, the judicial authority must decide whether to request preventive detention or confinement in a closed psychiatric center.
According to investigations thus far, the man had targeted people in the pedestrian zone of Trier in a high-powered SUV on Tuesday afternoon. According to the Minister of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate, Roger Lewentz (SPD), he zigzagged with his car in the center of the city. Five people died, including a nine-week-old baby. Another 14 people were injured.
Political or religious background excluded so far
Approximately four minutes after the first emergency call, police officers were able to arrest the driver. The man’s motive is still unclear, but investigators have so far ruled out a political or religious background. There is also no record of accomplices or accomplices of the detainee.
The suspect is German and a native of Trier. He was drunk at the time of the crime; it was found to be 1.4 per thousand. Investigations are under way against him for murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm. According to investigators, he lived in the car in the days leading up to the crime.
Lord Mayor: Blackest day since World War
In addition to the baby, the fatalities include three women aged 25, 52 and 73, as well as the boy’s father, 45. They all come from Trier. The baby’s mother survived and, according to authorities, is in the hospital as is her one-and-a-half-year-old son.
Mayor Wolfram Leibe (SPD) spoke of the blackest day for the city in post-war history after the uproar. In the morning (10.00) the victims are remembered at the Porta Nigra monument in Trier. Already at night around 100 people prayed for the dead, the wounded and their families in Trier Cathedral. After the event, the city center was cordoned off for further research. Overnight work on the crime scene was completed and the pedestrian zone was reopened.
Chancellor “very sad”
Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her condolences to the victims and their families. “The news from Trier makes me very saddened,” said a statement posted on Twitter by government spokesman Steffen Seibert. “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 ”.
Dreyer: “Too bad for all of us”
The Presiding Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, who also lives in Trier, expressed her deepest condolences to the families of the victims. It is “the worst” that people have “lost their lives” today, said the SPD politician. The day is “a really bad and terrible day for family members.”
In the middle of a normal day, people were uprooted from their lives. “It is very bad for all of us.” Let your thoughts turn to the injured and seriously injured, and hope and pray that they survive and recover.
