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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: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:46PM (14 children)
Citations needed.
I've seriously been looking for his details. The Sun has a blurb about his name being "Maurice P." Is Maurice a German name? An Islamic name? Is this guy German, or an immigrant? Is "Maurice P." equivalent to "John Doe"?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11030786/car-ploughs-into-carnival-crowds-germany/ [thesun.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:51PM (4 children)
If you believe that, you need your head testing.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 25 2020, @05:13PM (3 children)
Rhetorical questions are an indication that someone needs "head testing"? Come on, man . . .
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 25 2020, @05:46PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @11:44PM (1 child)
I get that Runaway was doing the whole "quick I gotta dig and find out if this was an Islamic attack!" cause he is totally not racist, but his comment above is hardly flamebait.
I would like to request that people return to sane moderations, and if you could also remain sane on Saturdays too that'd be greeeeaat. Thaaaaanks..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:11AM
Saying that Runaway has to have his head examined, when we know that will reveal nothing but an advanced case of equine encephalopathy, from having congress with horses, and the aforementioned Cranial/Rectal inversion, really contributed nothing to the discussion here. Runaway is an ignoramous, an idiot, a Faux News viewer, an Islamophobe, and basically an asshole. Best just to mock him, but mock him were it hurts, in his testicles, and with the fact he voted for Clinton. That will get to him.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Freeman on Tuesday February 25 2020, @04:56PM
No, Maurice P. is not an equivalent of "John Doe" in German. I was thinking something like Hans or Fritz or whatever, but apparently it's not those either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placeholder_names_by_language [wikipedia.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @05:45PM
Well, some people call me the space cowboy, yeah. Some call me the gangster of love. Some people call me Maurice, 'cause I speak of the pompatus of love!
I didn't realize that Steve Miller [youtube.com] had it in for kids and carnivals. I guess now that he's in the Rock 'n' Roll hall of fame, he thinks he can do anything he wants.
You learn something new every day!
(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:30PM (3 children)
Have you people never heard of the EU? Any EU citizen can live anywhere they wish in the EU. Europe is far more mixed now than you might imagine. However, Maurice is both a German and French name - many people living in Alsace. which has changed hands several times in the last 10 years of so, have that name. So the fact that someone may have moved a few miles over the old border does not surprise me in the slightest.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @09:18PM
Have you never heard of Jihadistan, formerly known as EU? Mohammad is both a German terrorist name and a French terrorist name.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday February 26 2020, @04:04AM
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 26 2020, @06:57AM
Yes, though the onomatopoeia is spelled "EW" here. *shrug* That's British spelling vs. American spelling for you.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by bradley13 on Tuesday February 25 2020, @09:47PM
Apparently his name is Maurice Petersen. A neighbor was interviewed, and said that she saw him driving away, seeming to be drunk or on drugs. He commented as he left that he would soon be in the news.
It's too early to be sure, but it looks more and more like a publicity-seeking fruitcake.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:12AM
These are good questions to ask. Who, what, when, where, how, why.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 26 2020, @06:54AM
Worse. It's French.
Washington DC delenda est.