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| Mayhem in Trier, GE as man drives car into pedestrian shopping area | |
| 2020-12-02 | |
| [Breitbart] Police are investigating after a car sped through a pedestrianised street in the German city of Trier on Tuesday afternoon, a ’rampage’ that left at least two dead. Update 1900 GMT Trier police have now confirmed that four people were killed after a car was driven into pedestrians on a shopping street in the centre of the city. A statement from the force said that the suspect was not previously known to the government for extremism and they did not suspect a politically motivated attack. The suspect put up "considerable resistance" to arrest. Volksfreund, a local news source, reports the dead are all locals: a 73-year-old woman, a 45-year-old man, 25-year-old woman, and a nine-month-old girl. The mother of the child is in hospital. A church service is taking place Tuesday night in memory of the dead. Read the original story below: Trier police confirmed that two people had died on Tuesday, with reports suggesting 10 others injured, including a child. Local news reported that the number of dead was actually four, and that the child mentioned in other reports was among the dead, and named the number of injured at 30. German source Die Welt reports eyewitnesses who said "that people were thrown through the air" as a car drove into a pedestrianised shopping area at speed.
Police said they had "no indications of a political motive" after questioning the suspect, and Fritzen said prosecutors were considering requesting he be placed in psychiatric care. The incident started around 12:50 GMT and ended within four minutes of the first emergency calls, with police intercepting the driver after he turned off a main shopping street. Smartphone footage from an eyewitness showed the arrest of the driver, handcuffed and lying face down on the street being pinned down by several officers next to the damaged vehicle. An unnamed man who said he was a former neighbour of the suspect told NTV that the driver had a history of mental issues, as well as money worries and problems with his father. | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 We only find out about the hospitals after the fact, after the death & destruction has already occurred. Good thing the x-mas markets were cancelled...might have been a lot worse. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-12-02 16:38 |
| #1 Don't the Germans have hospitals so that these people don't hurt themselves, and others? The US did, until 40-50 years ago, when they were all turned out on the streets and moved to San Francisco and Portland. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-12-02 14:57 |