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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, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday February 25 2020, @07:29PM (3 children)
That article says... absolutely nothing meaningful in support of your argument. Like nothing all. The word "crime" comes up exactly once, and it's someone vaguely gesturing at the idea of crime rates having some relationship to immigration without any supporting information. At all. None.
The person they quote there in that no supporting evidence article, Sylvi Listhaug, was forced to resign for accidentally publicly posting insane racist conspiracy theories about immigrants on facebook.
And if we want to look at actual data, Greece took in about 1% of their population in the "migration crisis" and their crime rate went down, but Norway refused and theirs stayed the same*. Poland took the most immigrants per capita and their homocide rate halved. Hungary instituted the most horrendously violent and psychopathic "immigration control" measures this side of Australia, and their homocide rate doubled*. There's no coherent truth to the immigration scaremongering. It's meaningless garbage from a far right party's racist spokeswoman to your dumb, credulous ears.
*Unlike you, I'm not making the case that these data actually mean anything(besides you being a shithead), because I don't believe in cherrypicking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2020, @10:52PM (1 child)
I wish you had linked to sources for your data because I would really like to use it myself in the future, but as an internet rando myself nobody is going to take me seriously without proof.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday February 26 2020, @12:00AM
It was just homocide by country and decade from wikipedia.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 26 2020, @11:04AM
Poland?
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