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A motorist was driving among pedestrians in the German city of Trier. In the case, several were injured.
Deutsche Welle writes that in the city of Trier, a pedestrian was waded by pedestrians on a pedestrian street on Tuesday. There is normally a Christmas market on site, but this has been overlooked due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The man sped through several streets in the downtown pedestrian zone and waded through people indiscriminately.
RTL Today knows that two died and 15 were injured.
This was confirmed by the local police in their Twitter message:
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 city’s mayor, Wolfram Leibe, reported the number of injured. Wolfram Leibe told reporters at the scene that there was a crazy run in the center.
Update: The latest accounts now write of 4 dead and 30 injured, including a child among the victims.
The city’s mayor tearfully admitted that one of the children was a girl whose shoes he had seen on the street.
According to recordings of the incident in the German press, the wader crashed into the crowd in a silver city van and was pushed to the side of the road by two car police units not far from pedestrian streets. Plainclothes police officers pulled the driver off the wheel and shot him down.
A video was made about this:
Focus.de writes that according to the most recent information, the suspect is 51 years old and comes from the Trier-Saarburg district. He resisted capture. Karl-Peter Jochem, a spokesman for Trier Police Headquarters, said the motive for the wader was unknown at the time and that his questioning was “very difficult.”
# TR0112
The detainee is a 51-year-old man from the Trier-Saarburg district.
The vehicle is insured.– Trier Police (@PolizeiTrier) December 1, 2020
Several ambulances arrived at the scene, the area was closed by the police, the police asked the residents to avoid the area until the situation is resolved.
Helicopters are also on site.
The police have also closed surrounding schools, as required by protocol, during a possible terrorist attack. Parents can go for the kids.
The images at the site show tremendous devastation in the streets and that people are being cared for there.
A witness said a gray Range Rover was speeding down the street, causing human bodies to fly through the air, including children. It is also said that a stroller flew through the air. People screamed in panic and ran to the shops. Several people cry on the street.
According to a report by the regional public service media company Südwestrundfunk (SWR), eyewitnesses said the car had intentionally pushed pedestrians off the pedestrian street.
According to Focus.de, a witness said that at least 30 people were lying on the street after the wading, some immobile. He felt like the car could go 70-80, he didn’t hum, he just sped up. There were quite a few on the street when the incident occurred.
The federal government was shocked to learn of what happened. We think of the relatives of the dead victims and the many injured and all those who care for those affected. said government spokesman Steffen Seibert.
He was shocked, among others, by the prime minister of the Malu Dreyer province, who will visit the site on Tuesday, among others, in what is happening in one of the largest cities of Rhineland-Palatinate in western Germany.
Trier is located in the Rhineland-Palatinate region and has a population of 110,000.
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