In the case of a suspected truck attack in Limburg in the state of Hesse, the police do not assume a terrorist background. That said a spokeswoman for the police headquarters West Hesse.
According to the spokeswoman, police chief Stefan Mueller had informed the city council of Limburg on Monday evening that the investigators have so far found no connection of the suspect in the violent Islamist scene.
The 32-year-old Syrian is said to have hijacked a truck on Monday a week ago (7.10.). After the previous investigation, he drove then at an intersection in the middle of Limburg unchecked on several vehicles, so that they were pushed together. Eight people and the suspect suffered injuries. The Syrian was arrested shortly after the incident and since then has been in custody.
A spokesman for the Attorney General Frankfurt did not want to comment on the motive. The Hesse State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) was meanwhile the investigation back to the Limburg police, as a spokesman said. Because a terrorist background had not been ruled out, the LKA was meanwhile switched on.