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Mourners in Trier (December 2020)
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Five people lost their lives in the Trier rampage.
The city of Trier has now announced that a sixth victim has died almost eleven months after the crime.
The 77-year-old died from his injuries.
He is the husband of a woman who was killed in the act.
The man was seriously injured in the rampage and, according to the city, spent a long time in clinics.
A few days after his wife's funeral, he relapsed and had to be hospitalized again.
Apparently he just recently returned from rehab, but he passed away last Friday.
"We mourn the family after this further severe blow and wish the relatives a lot of strength," said Mayor Wolfram Leibe (SPD).
He expressed his condolences to the bereaved.
Leibe announced that it would begin a city council meeting on Monday with a minute's silence.
The rampage in the Trier pedestrian zone on December 1, 2020 killed six people.
Numerous other people were injured.
In August, the trial of the 51-year-old alleged perpetrator began before the Trier district court.
The public prosecutor's office accused him of five murders, attempted murder in 18 cases and dangerous and grievous bodily harm in 14 cases.
The man had driven into the pedestrian zone in his car.
On his way through several streets he apparently caught passers-by at random, but deliberately at high speed, before he got off after a few hundred meters near the Porta Nigra.
The motive is so far unclear.
According to a preliminary assessment of a psychiatric expert, the man suffers from psychosis.
kim / AFP
