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“Motorists drove zigzag lines to deliberately inflict suffering”
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Police Chairman Ankner: “The suspect spent the last days in the car”
The man said to have encountered numerous people in Trier likely spent the last few days in a car. He didn’t spend time in an apartment, said Franz-Dieter Ankner, vice president of the Trier police headquarters.
Trier’s prosecution sees no evidence of a political motive after the fatal attack on five people in the city center. The driver was drunk. According to the Minister of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate, Roger Lewentz (SPD), it proceeded selectively.
northFollowing the fatal incident with a car in the city center of Trier, the driver is under investigation in five cases on urgent suspicion of murder. In addition, he was charged with dangerous bodily harm in many other cases, Attorney General Peter Fritzen said Tuesday night at a news conference in Trier. “We assume that he acted insidiously in the attack in the city center, used the vehicle as a weapon and therefore acted with dangerous public means,” said Fritzen.
Therefore, there is no evidence of a “somewhat terrorist” political or religious motive. However, there are indications of a psychiatric clinical picture, said the chief prosecutor. A doctor had examined the man and a psychiatric report would probably be commissioned.
Also, the driver was drunk during the crime. He had previously “consumed non-negligible amounts of alcohol,” the attorney general said. The 51-year-old man had a breath alcohol level of 1.4 per thousand. According to the Minister of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate, Roger Lewentz (SPD), the author took selective measures. He led “zigzag lines” to deliberately inflict suffering, the minister said. That happened to a very bad extent. “This event shakes the whole of Germany,” Lewentz said. Mayor Wolfram Leibe (SPD) spoke of the blackest day in the city since WWII.
Five dead, eight seriously injured
According to police, the 51-year-old German from the region ran into the pedestrian zone of Trier in an off-road vehicle in the afternoon. He drove from the direction of the basilica over the main market in the direction of Porta Nigra. On his journey he collided with numerous passersby.
According to police, the man was detained and arrested by emergency services four minutes after receiving the first emergency call. He put up considerable resistance when he was arrested. The man was taken to a police station and interrogated.
The suspect has yet to come forward to the police in the past and has no criminal record. He recently had no permanent address or close relatives. The off-road vehicle belongs to an acquaintance of the man who is not related to the act. According to police, the suspect spent the last few days in a car.
A total of five people were killed in the attack with the all-terrain vehicle. Police said there was also a nine-month-old boy among the fatalities. In addition to the baby and a 73-year-old woman, the first four victims also included a 25-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man from Trier. The mother of the baby is according to the authorities in the hospital. In addition, 14 other people were injured, eight of them seriously. About 25 people were also considered traumatized after the crime.
According to the Interior Minister, a total of 450 police officers were on duty in Trier. In addition, 300 helpers from the fire department, rescue services and other aid organizations were at the scene. The operation worked very well in terms of the process, the victims could have been taken care of quickly, reported the head of the professional fire department of Trier, Andreas Kirchartz. Clinics in the city immediately switched to emergency operation, patients could have been taken there immediately.
