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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: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday February 25 2020, @08:01PM (5 children)
I haven't heard of many "mass knifings". (although I'm sure TSA has dreams of them)
Cars can kill / injure more people. Maybe comparable to guns. But cars and drivers are registered and licensed and insured. I wonder if self-driving may one day prevent running cars into people (even unintentionally).
Stones and clubs probably won't kill large numbers of people like an automatic weapon can. Well, some clubs might, depending on what they play.
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday February 25 2020, @10:05PM (2 children)
I have read that high bridges are entirely too attractive to the suicidal. The Golden Gate is infamous for that. Now I understand they have netting to catch jumpers.
There's only so much can be done. Netting seems worthwhile. Banning knives is not practical. Too easy to add an edge to most any hunk of sheet metal.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 26 2020, @03:37PM (1 child)
You mean like the sharp edges inside of PCs that cut your hands open?
It's as if they pay someone to sharpen the edges of modern computer cases. Or maybe they've found a way to automate that manufacture step.
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:52PM
Nah, sheet metal is like paper in that when sheared, the trailing edge often deforms into a sharp crest. Same principle behind paper cuts. The sharp edges can be blunted (I've rasped and filed many an edge of sheet metal to do just that), but that costs more money, so manufacturers don't bother.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2020, @06:25AM
You haven't heard of many mass stabbings because they're not given the same coverage as other forms of mass killings. They don't fit the narrative. Same reason if this had been a white guy running over some Muslims it'd be given 24/7 front page coverage. Now it's basically dead news. Though I do suppose there is also the old saying - dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is. Here [wikipedia.org] is a list of 70 mass stabbings from Wiki.
Asia is probably the best place to look for examples of what's possible. The reason is that killing people is surprisingly hard, whatever your instrument. It tends to take skill, training, and a genuine desire to really follow through. In places like America when there's a mass stabbing you probably have an idiot carrying out the attack because there are indeed better instruments available. So you're probably looking at 1 out of 3 on our requirement list. However, in Asia guns are generally somewhat rare, especially in places like China, and so even when a more clever psychopath wants to kill people, knives and other such instruments may end up being used.
I'm not going to hotlink to these (they're all linked above). Just picking out a few to demonstrate that it's not [x] that kill people, but people that kill people.
Yema stabbings - 19 killed
Huang Guozhen - 16 killed, 1 injured (publicly executed 10 ten days later in front of a crowd of 10,000 - Chinese justice)
Kunming attack - 35 killed, 143 injured (8 attackers including 2 women)
Duong Van Mon - 11 killed, 6 wounded
Shi Yuejun - 12 killed, 5 injured
And many many more.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 26 2020, @07:04AM
Wikipedia [wikipedia.org].
BBC [bbc.co.uk].
There are a lot more. It doesn't get covered by the American mass media.
Washington DC delenda est.