Car on crowd in Leipzig, attacker was in psychiatric care
At least eight people were injured. At the time of the arrest, the driver reportedly showed signs of mental imbalance, writes the Bild.
Two people died and three were seriously injured on 4 May after a car drove into a crowd in the centre of Leipzig.
Thedriver of the car, a33-year-old German, was arrested. The authorities rule out a political motive at the moment and speak of an indiscriminate attack.
The dynamics of the incident are not yet clear, but according to the local radio station Radio Leipzig reported by Reuters online, a damaged Volkswagen SUV with a woman clinging to the windscreen of the car. was seen speeding through a pedestrian area of the city. It was a grey Volkswagen Taigo. According to the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper, the car was stopped by a retractable bollard.
The accident occurred on Grimmaische Strasse, a commercial street connecting several points of interest with the market square in Leipzig. A journalist from the Mr. Wissen broadcaster present at the scene reported, citing eyewitnesses, that the car was travelling at a speed of 70 to 80 km/h.
Shops in the pedestrian zone have been closed and the area is cordoned off. An eyewitness who works in one of the shops in the affected street told Focus online: 'I am still completely in shock. From inside the shop, I saw a car speeding away. Some people were run over. That's all I saw; then the car disappeared from my sight. It was going at high speed; it was a large vehicle'.
