In Mannheim a car hit the crowd in the city center where a carnival market was underway.
Two people would be dead. Bild writes it. The injured would be 25, adds the newspaper. For German media it is not yet clear whether you are an accident or a voluntary gesture. According to the media, The man driving the car According to the German Agency DPA, it is a German citizen. Mannheim police believed that there is no more danger to the population. The only alleged manager was arrested and there are no elements to assume the existence of an accomplice.
The car used was known to the police for the use of anti -constitutional and far -right symbols. This was reported by the German newspaper Die Welt, adding that The German citizen had a pistol Scacciacani and shot himself in his mouth as he was stopped. He is currently hospitalized in very serious conditions and is in danger of life.
The Mannheim Police announces that at the moment the investigations do not make one think of a political motive for what happened today, when a man launched himself with his car on passers -by.
Some witnesses saw the car falling on the high -speed crowd near the water tower, a city monument. The police announce that an operation of the police is underway in the city center. “Citizens are invited to avoid the center,” writes the police on X.
The University Polyclinic of Mannheim has alerted the intensive care section and is preparing for an emergency situation. According to the German press, it is a customary measure in these cases.
Carnival is in different areas of Germany a very heartfelt party, with citizens and celebrations. Mannheim is located in the German Land of Baden-Wuttenberg and is the third city of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Here on May 31, a twenty -five year old stabbed five people and killed one of the policemen who tried to stop him. The prosecutor believes it is an Islamist attack; The process started last February.