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The mayor confirmed the death of 4 and injured 15 people, speaking of a “crazy driver” (France Press)
The prosecutor for the city of Trier, in southwestern Germany, announced that the driver who hit pedestrians with his car on Tuesday, resulting in four deaths, appeared to be “mentally ill.”
Peter Fritzen said at a press conference that the first elements of the investigation show that “mental disorders may have a role” in what the 51-year-old driver did, adding that the latter from Trier was also under the influence. of alcohol.
German police had previously announced that a car had run over pedestrians on a pedestrian lane in the south-west of the country, killing two people and injuring about 15 directly, and that the driver had been arrested. Without specifying whether the matter was an accident or an attack, or its background.
The mayor of the city, Wolfram Libi, confirmed that 15 people were injured, some of them “seriously”, speaking of a “crazy driver”.
Investigators seized the car he was driving in, according to police, who said a person had been detained without giving further details.
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The incident takes place in a tense atmosphere in Germany, where authorities fear extremist Islamic threats since a truck attack claimed by the terrorist organization “ISIS” killed 12 people in December 2016 in Berlin.
Germany also faces the threat from the far right, as its supporters have carried out several attacks in the past two years, as well as the attack on a hookah restaurant in Hanau in February, and the attack near a synagogue in Halle. in 2019.
(Brush from France)
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