A man has been arrested and several have been seriously injured, including at least one person killed after a “black SUV” was forced into a crowd in a German city on Monday morning.
Several people were injured, some seriously, and at least one was placed under a bloody sheet – presumed deceased – in Mannheim, on the Rhine River in Baden-Württemberg on Monday morning. Police ordered the public to stay away from the area, and a massive deployment of emergency services was underway, with helicopters landing in a square near the incident in the city centre.
Mannheim has Miller City in the bank on the other side of the Rhine – Ludwigszeffen of Rhineland Palachinjet – and local newspapers in this twin community Die Line Pfalz Report Witnesses spoke of “a rampage” and at least one fatality by the suspect's driver. Stuttgarter Zeitung situation: “At the scene, we saw debris and at least one person was covered under the tarpaulin.”
Update 1330 – Police confirm the person killed
Local police have now held a press conference along with the newspaper. Die Line Pfalz Note that an officer “confirmed a rampage” and one person died. No more information has been made public yet, building Police sources say the death toll has actually risen to two and 25 people have been injured are state police sources. Frankfurter Ranschau situation Mannheim at the University Hospital was revitalized for a “large event” in which a trauma team for adults and children rose to emerge.
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March 3, 2025, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg: Emergency services and police stand in Paradeplatz, Mannheim, after a serious incident. Photo: Dieter Leder/DPA (Photo by Dieter Leder/Picture Alliance by Getty Images)
National newspaper building Report Their sources, stating the black SUV, were driven into a crowd of people “at high speed,” and the driver was later arrested.
Police have not yet commented on the cause of the incident or whether there is a known motive. Nevertheless, driving vehicles at high speeds to crowds has been something too familiar in German cities over the past decade, and there have been other such incidents in recent weeks.
As previously reported, shortly before Christmas, a Saudi Arabian “doctor” plowed the crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg's Cathedral Square. Five people have been killed, including children, and hundreds have been injured.
Then in February, two people were killed and dozens were injured when Afghan immigrants drove into a Munich crowd. Again, one of the people killed was a young child. In both attacks, the perpetrators are model immigrants, those who were superficially integrated into society and could be called men who had jobs, a difficult new development in the fierce immigrant European government, and situations that have come from loneliness, criminals and failed situations where people previously attracted to violent extremism.
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