The 51-year-old driver who killed five people, including a baby, driving in a pedestrian zone in the German city of Trier was remanded in custody on Wednesday, December 2, the prosecution said.
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The placement in psychiatric care of this man, also highly alcoholic Tuesday at the time of the facts, had been considered for a time.
But an investigating judge at the Trier court finally decided on Wednesday to take him into custody.
He is being prosecuted for five homicides and 18 attempts, the same source said.
In an SUV, he drove at high speed on Tuesday afternoon in a pedestrian area in the Rhineland-Palatinate city, killing five people, including a nine-week-old baby, and injuring 18 others, six of them seriously. .
He was arrested just minutes after his crazy race, the motivation of which remains undetermined.
The investigators, however, ruled out any political or religious motive.
A rally in tribute to the victims
Hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday 2 December near the scene of the tragedy, at the Porta Nigra in Trier.
KAI PFAFFENBACH / REUTERS
Hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday morning, despite restrictions linked to the pandemic, near Porta Nigra, Trier's iconic monument, to pay tribute to the victims.
"
Let us nurture
this solidarity that I am experiencing here, at this time, in the weeks and months to come,
" declared the mayor of Trier, Wolfram Leibe.
The leader of the state-region, Malu Dreyer she spoke of a "
terrible event here, in this beautiful city
".
"
Nothing, really nothing, can justify this brutal and terrible act
", she lamented.
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