A man killed four people in a car in a pedestrian zone in Trier on Tuesday afternoon, including a nine-month-old toddler. 15 people were injured. The police announced that in the evening.
The driver of the SUV was arrested. This is a 51-year-old German from Kordel in the Trier-Saarburg district. The murder vehicle was on loan; the owner is also a German. Security groups called the name Bernd Walter W. In the past few days he is said to have not been in his apartment, but in the vehicle, the police said. The man was therefore drunk (1.4 per thousand) on the way.
There are indications of a psychiatric disease, said the senior public prosecutor Peter Fritzen in the evening. A doctor had assessed the man, and a psychiatric report would probably be commissioned. There are no indications of a “somewhat terrorist”, political or religious motive.
The man was arrested “four minutes after the initial warning.” That said the Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD). A police spokesman added that the driver was “stopped and overwhelmed by forces of the police headquarters”. According to the information, the driver has not yet commented.
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Several hundred emergency services secured traces in the city center in the afternoon. The city center should remain cordoned off into the evening hours. According to the police, there is no longer any danger.
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The driver raced into the pedestrian zone around 1:54 p.m., Konz told Tagesspiegel. The first emergency call was received two minutes later. Colleagues in two police vehicles stopped the SUV. The arrested driver was not injured, but has not yet been questioned.
In a video of a local resident that is circulating on the Internet, plainclothes police officers hold the driver to the ground. A police vehicle hit the SUV from the left. In media reports it is said that the man resisted the arrest.
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Two police helicopters circled over the city after the incident. The vehicle is an off-road vehicle, a Range Rover.
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Eyewitnesses reported that people were thrown through the air. “We see such pictures on television quite often and think that cannot happen to us,” said Wolfram Leibe, Mayor of Trier. “Now it has also happened in Trier.” And further: “Everyone is busy bringing the injured and seriously injured to the hospitals at the moment,” said Leibe.
He walked through the city center after the incident. “It was just awful,” he said, describing how he saw a child’s sneaker. The child is probably dead.
In security circles it was said that there was no police information about W. A disease like epilepsy is possible or diabetic shock. Insulin was found in the SUV.
In Kordel it was learned that Bernd Walter W. had only lived in the village for a short time. He moved into an apartment in September 2019 and left it again in April 2020. Bernd Walter W. lived alone.
Helicopter circled over the city
“The terrible images of the attack on the Berlin Christmas market come up,” a security expert told Tagesspiegel. Almost exactly four years ago, on December 19, 2016, the Islamist Anis Amri drove into the Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz in a hijacked truck. Twelve people died in the attack and more than 50 were injured.
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The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU politicians Julia Klöckner and Christian Baldauf expressed their shock and concern. They were shocked by the “amok run”, said the CDU state chief and the CDU state parliamentary group leader. “Our thoughts are with the injured on the spot. We mourn with the relatives of the dead, ”they said.
“What happened in Trier is shocking,” said government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Twitter. “The thoughts are with the relatives of the victims, with the numerous injured and with everyone who is on duty at this moment to care for those affected.”
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In February, a 29-year-old German deliberately drove his car into the crowd in Volkmarsen, northern Hesse. Dozens of people were injured. In 2019, a 50-year-old had hit people on New Year’s Eve in Bottrop. He was admitted to the closed psychiatry. In 2018, a man raced into a group with his camper in Münster, and five people died. The perpetrator shot himself, the investigators assume a mental illness.
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