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2025-03-03 Europe

Car driven into crowd in Mannheim UPDATE 2: 2 dead, 25 11 wounded, crazed German killer arrested

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Posted by European Conservative 2025-03-03 08:18|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 2 dead, 25 injured, 3 in critical condition (including a child).

Posted by European Conservative 2025-03-03 09:31|| 2025-03-03 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 25 injured is not a few as first reported.

Dammit! Please stay safe, European Conservative, you and yours.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 09:35|| 2025-03-03 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Deutsche Welle:

Police said a suspect was arrested after a car drove into a crowd in the city center.

A suspect is in custody, police said, adding that it was unclear if any others had been involved.

The incident took place at Paradeplatz, a major square in the downtown area, at around noon.

According to the Mannheim24 news website, a black SUV had driven at high speed into a crowd close to where a carnival market was held.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 09:39|| 2025-03-03 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Breitbart is liveblogging, confirms the 2 and 25 update

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 09:47|| 2025-03-03 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 The Daily Mail ditto. They have a photo of the black SUV with the license plate pixillated.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 09:51|| 2025-03-03 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Munich canceled all official carneval events after the attack in Munich. Today is Rosenmontag event in Cologne, the biggest event. Let's hope for the best.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-03-03 10:14|| 2025-03-03 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Walking Unvaxed, thank you for the Breitbart link. In my rush to post, I didn’t mention it.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 10:53|| 2025-03-03 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 From the Guardian:

40-year-old German citizen identified as Mannheim suspect
The interior minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Thomas Strobl, has told the German press agency dpa that the suspect was a 40-year-old German citizen from the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

No further details have been released at this stage.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 11:25|| 2025-03-03 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Inquiring minds will wonder if "German citizen" is a code phrase designed to obscure rather than enlighten.

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-03 11:34|| 2025-03-03 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Enquiring minds are certain of it, SteveS.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 11:35|| 2025-03-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 EC, I'm terribly sorry to read this news.

Posted by Matt 2025-03-03 11:52|| 2025-03-03 11:52|| Front Page Top

#12 They have a photo of the black SUV with the license plate pixillated.

"Car driven into crowd" - at least they admit someone drove it. Usually it's "Car drives into crowd" as if there's no perp

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-03 12:18|| 2025-03-03 12:18|| Front Page Top

#13 From the Guardian:

The man drove his car at about 12.15pm through Mannheim’s pedestrian zone from Friedrichsring into the several hundred metre Planken, Mannheim’s main shopping street, and hit or drove around several passersby at the parade square, witnesses said.

According to the SZ, the suspect was arrested half an hour later – at 12.45pm. As the newspaper reported, citing investigators, the man is said to have driven a car with a Ludwigshafen license plate and to have been armed.

The police have not yet provided any information about the background or a possible motive. The police were also initially unable to say whether it was

From Breitbart:

Update 1630 — Death toll rises

German media now states that two people are known to have been killed, a man and a woman, in the apparent attack against pedestrians in Mannheim on Monday. Newspaper Die Welt reveals new details on the attacker, that is is a 40-year-old German citizen and that he attempted to shoot himself in the mouth with what is described as a blank firing pistol as police attempted to arrest him. The paper further says the owner of the Ford car used in the rampage had previously been known to the authorities for involvement in ‘right wing extremism’, although it also emphasises there is no information on whether it was he behind the wheel or someone else.

The question always is nuts, evil, or jihadi? Or accident, of course, but in these troubled times there aren’t nearly enough of those on a percentage basis.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 13:11|| 2025-03-03 13:11|| Front Page Top

#14 I hear the Germans are itching to get involved in Ukraine. Maybe they need to start getting used to body counts.

Posted by Regular joe 2025-03-03 15:20|| 2025-03-03 15:20|| Front Page Top

#15 The Guardian reports it was a Ford Fiesta, whatever that is.

From Deutsche Welle:

The motorist who drove his car into a crowd of people in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, killing at least two, intended to do so, police and public prosecutors said at a joint press conference on Monday evening.

The suspect, who is 40 years old, was detained following the incident, the interior minister of the state, Baden-Württemberg, where Mannheim is based, told reporters earlier in the day.

Police and prosecutors later added at the news conference that the suspect, a German man, is being investigated for murder and attempted murder in the attack that injured at least 11 others.

They said the driver shot himself in the mouth when he was arrested and had to undergo medical treatment at a hospital. He could not yet be questioned.

A senior public prosecutor said the man was suffering from psychological problems and that investigators were looking into that aspect more closely.

Moving this to Page 3: Non-War on Terror. But Page 1 was the correct first assumption, given the timing and the details.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-03 16:53|| 2025-03-03 16:53|| Front Page Top

#16 Name given as Alexander S.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-03-03 17:40|| 2025-03-03 17:40|| Front Page Top

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