One person was killed, and others wounded when the car got into the crowd on Monday in the Western German city of Mannheim, the police said when they asked society to keep them away from the city center and others in their homes.
Police spokesman Stefan Wilhelm said that the driver entered a group of people in Paradeplatz, pedestrian street in Mannheim, killing one person. He said that “several” people were injured, but the police could not yet determine how much they were injured and how wounded they were.
“We can confirm that one perpetrator has been arrested,” he said. “We cannot yet provide information about whether there were more perpetrators.”
Pictures from the stage showed that the parts of Śródmieście were fenced off, with the heavy presence of the police and helicopters floating above. The police gathered around a badly damaged black car when ambulances arranged outside the cordon.
Paradeplatz, the main square in the city center, lies at the end of a pedestrian street in Mannheim, which has 326,000 people and lies 85 kilometers south of Frankfurt.
The authorities pushed the warning about the Katarnn application, telling people in Mannheim to avoid the city center due to a large police distribution. Katlan is used by officials to provide information about the main crisis situations, such as storms, fighters' attacks or fires.
Safety was a key problem in Germany after a series of violent attacks in the last week Magdeburg in December AND In Munich last monthand also stab at Mannheim in May 2024.
Throughout Germany, many people took a long weekend on the occasion of the carnival, including Rose on Monday, when several cities are organizing parades. Mannheim's Street Parade took place on Sunday.