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Four people were killed in the riot in Trier’s pedestrian zone. According to the police announced at a press conference, according to the current status of the investigation, a nine-month-old baby, a 25-year-old woman, a 73-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man from Trier died. The baby’s mother is injured in the hospital. Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD) said there were four seriously injured, five seriously injured and six lightly injured, in addition to the dead.
The alleged perpetrator According to the police, he is a 51-year-old man.who was born in Trier and lives in the region. He did not spend the last days in an apartment, but in his car. According to initial investigations, he recently had no permanent residence.
Senior prosecutor Peter Fritzen announced that the driver was under investigation for murder and assault. So far there is no evidence of a terrorist, political or religious motive. However, there are early indications of a “picture of psychiatric illness.” The suspect was also drunk. The man had a breath alcohol concentration of 1.4 parts per thousand.
Interior Minister Lewentz said in a statement that the driver had been arrested “four minutes after the initial notice.” A police spokesman added that the driver was “detained by forces of the police headquarters” and overwhelmed. He resisted when he was arrested.
Coming from the Basilica of Constantine, the man turned into the pedestrian zone and sped a distance of approximately one kilometer through the city center. He drove at high speed through Brotstrasse and the main market to Porta Nigra, the ancient Roman city gate, the symbol of the city. The vehicle stopped shortly after Porta Nigra. Police spoke to the man sitting in the car and arrested him.
Trier Mayor Wolfram Leibe (SPD) spoke in a television statement of a “riot” https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/. “I don’t know how you are, we see images like this on television and I think that cannot happen to us. Now it has also happened in Trier,” Leibe said later at a first press conference. the city, it was terrible. “There is a sneaker there.” Break. “And the girl is dead for that.” Then he says nothing more. His press officer takes over. “I ask you to understand that this affects you a lot”.
Videos posted on Twitter show damaged shops in the pedestrian zone and one injured man lying on the ground, as well as an ambulance. The police ask the population to avoid the area. Parts of Trier’s city center are largely cordoned off. Blue lights can be seen everywhere in the center.
The federal government also commented on the incident. “What happened in Trier is shocking,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Twitter. “The thought is with the families of the victims, with the many injured and with all those who are on duty at this time to care for those affected.” In a statement from Chancellor Merkel he says: “The news from Trier saddens me very much.”
Police asked not to post photos and videos of the incident online and instead upload them to a specially created upload portal created by the investigators.
With material from the agencies
