At least two people were killed and they were more injured when the car was scored in the mass of people in the center of the German city, Mannheim reports Guardian. Police previously warned of terrorist threats during regional carnival celebrations.
The black car driver was arrested, confirmed the police spokesperson, while security forces across the city were in the state of being in fear of being able to exist and other suspects. The citizens were issued a warning to avoid the city center.
The witnesses described people on the ground on the ground on the paradeplatz, central pedestrian square, after the car ran among the passerske and continued to move in the direction of water tower. At least two attempts were in the face of the spot. Several media reported that two dead and 25 were injured, although the official authorities have not yet confirmed that number.
The motive is still unclear
Police said that it was still not clear whether the driver intentionally ran among the people who celebrated the carnival before Lent. Interior Minister Baden-Württemberg Thomas Strobl told the German news agency of the DPA that the suspected 40-year-old German citizen from the neighboring province of Rhineland-Falačka. The police also confirmed that there is no evidence that more than one person was involved.
The incident comes after a number of violent attacks in Germany, including two similar cases where cars were used as weapons – one in Munich last month, and the other in Magdeburg in December.
Mannheim was already the scene of a deadly attack in May 2024. year, when the policeman was killed, and five people were wounded in a knife attack.
All these attacks were the work of migrants, which further flared the fierce political debate on immigration policy on the eve of German parliamentary elections last month. In the elections, the victory took the CSU / CSU Conservative Coalition, which was a campaign with the tightening of border control, while the extremely right, the Antimegro Party of the Alternative to Germany (AFD) won the record score, place the record.
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