A driver rammed a car in the southwestern German city of Mannheim on Monday, and the authorities said that two people were killed and several others were injured.
The police arrested the driver, who seemed to have intentionally plowed into the crowd in view of the speed he drove at, according to the public prosecutor’s office in an Interior Minister of Act, Nancy Faeser, who was described as “Horror in broad daylight”.
He did not seem to have been politically or religiously motivated, but there were reasons to believe that he was psychologically uncomfortable, said Mannheim boss Prosecutor Romeo Schluessler.
The public prosecutor examined the suspicious, a 40-year-old German man from the neighboring state of Rhineland Palatinat, after two murder cases and several cases of murder.
The suspect has not yet been questioned because he had to undergo medical treatment after shot himself into his mouth after the attack with an empty weapon.
He seems to be a landscape gardener who lives alone, said the prosecutors.
The two deceased people were an 83-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man.
The Bildzeitung reported that 25 people were injured in addition to the deceased, 15 of them seriously. The paper cited the paper.
Pictures from the scene showed that parts of the city center were cordoned off, with a heavy police presence and helicopters hovering above. The police gathered for a heavily damaged black car when ambulance were set up in front of the Kordon.
Paradeplatz, a large place in the city center, is located at the end of a pedestrian street in Mannheim, which has 326,000 inhabitants and is 85 kilometers south of Frankfurt.
The police in Mannheim, about 85 kilometers south of Frankfurt, say that one person is dead and a person is in custody after a driver has gone into a lot. Only a few details about the number of injuries or the condition of the examination were given.
The authorities made the Katwarn app aware, which told the people in Mannheim that they should avoid the city center of the city due to great police work. Katwarn is used by officials to communicate information about important emergencies such as thunderstorms, militant attacks or fires.
“Canada is horrified by another terrible act of violence against innocent people in Germany,” said Global Affairs Canada on X.
Security was an important concern in Germany after a number of violent attacks in the past few weeks, including a fatal car ramming in Magdeburg in December and last month in Munich, and a stab in Mannheim in May 2024.
Throughout Germany, many people released a long weekend to celebrate the carnival, including Rose Monday when several cities hold parades. However, Mannheim’s street parade took place on Sunday.
