German Police Seek Motive In Car Ramming
Sumaira FH Published February 25, 2020 | 10:56 PM
German authorities scrambled Tuesday to determine the motives of a man who ploughed his car into a carnival procession, injuring dozens and further unsettling a country rocked by a fatal mass shooting last week
Volkmarsen, Germany, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Feb, 2020 ) :German authorities scrambled Tuesday to determine the motives of a man who ploughed his car into a carnival procession, injuring dozens and further unsettling a country rocked by a fatal mass shooting last week.
In an afternoon statement, police said the number injured had now reached "almost 60" and asked those hurt in the incident or with possible evidence to come forward.
Investigators said the 29-year-old German driver had not been drunk at the time of the incident on Monday, but could not yet rule out that he was under the influence of drugs, national news agency DPA reported.
The suspect has still not been questioned because of his own injuries, a police spokesman told reporters near the scene of the incident in Hessian town Volkmarsen.
Among the injured in the ramming were 18 children aged from just three years.
It followed just days after a gunman with suspected racist motives killed nine people with migrant backgrounds in Hanau, also in western Hesse state, prompting fears of a repeat attack.
Officials cancelled all carnival parades across the state Monday, while a children's procession was called off Tuesday in state capital Wiesbaden.
But authorities have stopped short of calling the incident an attack until they know more about the driver's motives.
"I saw him drive off, he looked as if he was on drugs and said 'soon I'll be in the papers'," a neighbour of the suspect told German broadcaster RTL.
Nevertheless, prosecutors in Frankfurt have opened an investigation on suspicion of attempted homicide.
Prosecutors said they had also arrested a second person who filmed the car rampage, citing a privacy law against gawkers.
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