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Several people were injured Monday when a car drove into a carnival procession in the central German town of Volkmarsen, police said. "There are dozens of injured, including some who are gravely hurt," a spokeswoman for Volkmarsen police told AFP.
Speaking to DPA news agency, a police spokesman added that children were among the injured. The driver has been arrested.
Germany is on high alert following a shooting spree by a far-right gunman in the city of Hanau, also in Hesse, last Wednesday, that left 10 people dead.
Monday's incident took place as residents in many parts of the country celebrate Rose Monday, a highlight of annual carnival festivities that sees adults and children alike dress up and attend parades where people play music and throw candies from floats.
According to the Daily Mail
Police in Germany have tonight searched the home of a driver who deliberately drove a car into crowds at a German Carnival parade on Monday afternoon.
Special police officers dressed in all black with protective gear were seen entering the property of the 29-year-old who has been arrested for attempted murder after he ploughed his Mercedes into the carnival crowd packed with children.
30 people were injured following the incident and forensic officers have now set up a cordon around the car, with pictures showing several officers examining the silver vehicle.
The driver, a 29-year-old German citizen, mounted the pavement in the town of Volkmarsen, 15 miles west of Kassel, around 2.30pm on Monday before ploughing into families that had turned out for the festivities.
Police arrested the driver at the scene. While officers could not disclose a motive for the attack, local media reported that investigators are working on the assumption that it was deliberate and that investigators were looking into all possibilities.
German police say he is being treated by doctors due to injuries he suffered in the incident, and prosecutors [say] he now faces charges of attempted homicide. Reports suggest he was from the local area and had no history of political extremism.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 25 2020, @03:55PM (17 children)
"Reactionary" as a political label is so stupid. Used derogatorily it implies that the only "correct" political viewpoint is to be progressive.
Sometimes new ideas are dumb. So you oppose them. Oops, now you're a "reactionary."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:40PM (7 children)
> "Reactionary" as a political label is so stupid.
OK then, what is the correct word? There needs to be something generic for extreme right behavior that corresponds to "radical" (extreme behavior/beliefs on the left side).
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 25 2020, @05:06PM (2 children)
Why? Just call them "radical right."
Or if you simply *must* have a replacement term, I'd suggest "regressive."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @05:41PM (1 child)
At least one dictionary disagrees: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/reactionary [thesaurus.com]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:09PM
People use the term to mean illogical things. News at 11
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 26 2020, @05:37AM (2 children)
There's plenty of generic labels out there. But what do you need them for?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @06:58AM
khallow excites no one as a brand name. In fact, has the opposite effect in most cases.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:26AM
Depends, are they halal certified? If not, why not?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 26 2020, @11:25AM
Dividing people in left and right is like Bush saying "either with us or with terrorists", lolwut, the terrorists are helping your already drafted political program.
Many people opposed to lefty socialism would probably have opposed the same tactics when adopted by national socialism. Control over economy and private life, appeal to youth, appeal to revolution, replacement of traditional religion with spirituality of the self, cult of personality. The problem being that these 'conservative' people's own political representatives, the republicans, the catholics, the whatevers, always bent over for the socialists, red or black, without fighting. So, they are the ultimate political bitches, because they are also lapdogs for the plutocrats, and, as every politician ever recently, unable to fight the battle against the money printers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @10:48PM (8 children)
> Sometimes new ideas are dumb. So you oppose them. Oops, now you're a "reactionary."
No dude. That's the definition of conservative.
A reactionary is someone who wants to undo established progress to return to a "simpler" time.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 25 2020, @10:56PM (6 children)
Well it doesn't sound like that's a universally-accepted definition.
Another reason not to use it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @11:48PM (5 children)
Hello, McFly? Modern American conservatism has become the equivalent of the absolute nutjob right in europe.
Refusing to use a correct term because it accurately describes how nucking futs some americans have become is the opposite of being neutral, its catering to the nuts to obfuscate just how nuts they are. Stop carrying water for the nazis dude. I'm not exaggerating - modern american conservatism literally wants to undo the liberal world order established as a result of the defeat of the nazis. [washingtonpost.com] If returning the country to a pre-nazi time isn't reactionary, then what the fuck is?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @12:00AM (1 child)
If it wouldn't be so sad, it'd be funny seeing the losing team of the last presidential election using their PR section (used to be called journalists) to scare poor dumb fucks glued to their phones, that Trump the antichrist will bring literally Nazism to America (would that be before or after he sells us out to the Russians?). Three whole years later.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @01:44AM
Your great grandparents were the ones chanting "mustache man bad" back in the homeland weren't they?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 26 2020, @05:40AM (2 children)
Why should we care? Europe is pretty skewed as well, politically.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:01AM (1 child)
khallow does not know where Europe is, of why he should care about it. Typical American. Really, really, stupid; and, geographically challenged. This is why Pompeo runs about with un-titled maps, just in case a NPR reporter or khallow should show up! Unfortunately, the NPR reporter could identify Ukraine, while khallow pointed to South Dakota. Sad, really.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:50PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @08:03AM
"Keep America Great": Conservative. Keep the Darkies off the streets after dark.
"Make America Great": Progressive. Hell, yeah! Go, Bernie!! It's the American way!!!
"Keep America as shitty as it is": Liberal, Status Quo, but bitching about it.
"Make America Grate, Again": Reactionary, implying a return to a past that never existed, cf. Reagan, Ronald, "It's Morning in America, Again".