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UPDATE 01.00, December 2 (Romanian time): The toll of those who died after a car entered the crowd in the German city of Trier rose to five, including a baby of nine and a half weeks.
The film of the facts and the data on the victims, according to the press release of the Trier Police:
On Tuesday afternoon, December 1, 2020, the first call to the police was at 1:47 p.m. A car driver was reported to be crossing the pedestrian zone in Trier and entering people.
When the driver of the truck was detained by the police at 1:51 p.m., the balance was 4 dead and 15 injured.
During the night, another victim died from serious injuries.
All the murdered victims were from Trier and were caught walking in the pedestrian zone, decorated for Christmas.
A 45-year-old man and his 9-and-a-half-week-old daughter were murdered (initially announced to be a 9-month-old baby). The girl’s wife and mother and another one and a half year old child in the family were injured and taken to a hospital in Trier.
The other three dead are women aged 25, 52 and 73.
More than 750 police officers, as well as emergency and rescue services from the entire Trier region, managed to secure and close the incident very quickly and treat the victims, according to the police statement.
The investigation at the crime scene, which covers more than 100 square meters, has ended for the moment, and the pedestrian zone is cleared and released again. The investigation into the substance of the crime is ongoing.
At 7:00 pm, the heads of the public prosecutor’s office, the Trier city police together with the Minister of the Interior informed the media about the incident at a press conference. Interior Minister Roger Lewentz and Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer, who lives in Trier, were informed about the incident.
The Police mentioned in the information the exemplary behavior of the passers-by in the area who provided first aid until the arrival of the emergency medical teams.
About the 51-year-old arrested driver, the police mentioned that he is being investigated. He is German, was born in Trier and lives in the Trier-Saarburg district. The police described the incident caused by him until he was arrested by the police called on the scene for the emergency call. After entering the pedestrian zone by car, the driver killed and injured several people during the 800 meters he traveled and left several debris on the side of the street. After entering another street, he drove 100 meters and then stopped suddenly, being immediately stopped by the police.
UPDATE 20.00 (Romanian time): Interior Minister Roger Lewentz had previously announced Tuesday night at a press conference that the number of those who died as a result of the incident reached 4, according to Der Spiegel.
Investigators said they quickly caught him and arrested the 51-year-old driver. He is currently under investigation for attempted multiple homicide and multiple dangerous bodily harm, Trier police said in a message posted on Twitter.
The driver of the car that entered the pedestrian zone of the city of Trier, killing four people, showed signs of “mental disorders”, said the public prosecutor of this city in the southwest of Germany. As if that wasn’t all, it appears that he was also high on alcohol.
Police have ruled out, at least for now, a political reason for the incident.
According to initial reports, at least 15 people were injured in the incident in western Germany. The information was also confirmed by the mayor of Trier for the public television station SWR.
One person was arrested, police said.
Police said on Twitter: “We arrested one person, a vehicle was secured. Two people died, according to preliminary instructions. Avoid the city center.”
Uwe Konz, the head of the Trier police press office, told BILD: “After going through the pedestrian zone, several people were injured. Doctors are currently on the scene. “
The same source affirms that at the moment no conclusions can be drawn about whether or not it was a terrorist act.
According to the local newspaper Trierischer Volksfreund, it all happened after a car came from Porta Nigra to the main square and then headed to Fleischstrasse, where several people were injured.
An eyewitness reported that a dark gray Range Rover sped through Brotstraße. People just exploded, he says.
Schools in the city center were immediately informed of the incident and blocked, the newspaper reported.
It appears that the parents were called shortly after 2:00 p.m. to take their children from school, because they would not be allowed to go home alone.
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