A 51-year-old is charged with five murders and attempted murder in 18 other cases. He now has to answer in court.
Trier – After the rampage with five dead in Trier in December 2020, the alleged perpetrator, according to several police officers, waited calmly and calmly behind his car for the police.
“I had the impression that he was looking at me stoically and with a slight grin,” said Carsten Wagner, who was one of the first police officers to reach the car, on Friday in the trial of the alleged gunman at the Trier district court.
The indictment charges the 51-year-old with five murders and attempted murder in 18 other cases. The German is said to have raced through the Trier pedestrian zone in his off-road vehicle on December 1, 2020 in order to kill or injure as many people as possible. In doing so, he drove indiscriminately and purposefully towards passers-by in a zigzag course. Five people were killed in the act. There were also numerous injured and traumatized people.
Police officers said the car that was killed was badly damaged at the front. They saw there remains of skin and hair, a handbag and other belongings. “It looked terrible.” The alleged perpetrator had clearly answered questions from the police during the arrest, for example about weapons or an ID, said Wagner. According to his impression, he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The man appeared “indifferent, completely unimpressed,” said others. “It was surreal.” Dpa
