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northAfter the uproar in downtown Trier with several dead, the urgent suspect is due to appear before the judge on Wednesday. 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. 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.
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. On Wednesday morning (10 am), the victims will be commemorated at Trier’s iconic Porta Nigra. At Trier Cathedral, around 100 people prayed for the dead, the injured and their families on Tuesday night.
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.
Anger, horror and deep sadness
The top representatives of the two great German churches have been dismayed. “In this hour of muteness and pain I am connected with the victims, the deceased, the injured and the families,” the president of the Conference of German Catholic Bishops, Georg Bätzing, said Tuesday night. The haunting images of the city center left him with anger, horror, and deep sadness.
“Inhuman attacks must have no place in our society,” said the Bishop of Limburg of the act in which five people were killed. The senseless use of force cannot be justified by anything.
The president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, complained on the Facebook network “abysses of suffering”. He prayed that the families of the victims would be strengthened and the injured would recover.
