German justice ordered Thursday, June 9 the placement in a psychiatric care facility of a 29-year-old driver who threw his car at passers-by in Berlin on Wednesday, killing a woman and injuring 32 people.
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Many elements suggest paranoid schizophrenia
" in this German of Armenian origin, prosecutors' spokesman Sebastian Büchner told the press, excluding any terrorist motivation.
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There are indications that the suspect suffers from a psychic deficiency which is at the origin of his act yesterday (Wednesday)
”, he also indicated, excluding an automobile accident.
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Drugs were found during a search
”.
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Driving a Renault vehicle, this man had run into a group of 24 schoolchildren from the Hesse region who were on a school trip to the German capital, killing their teacher who was accompanying them.
The second teacher stands "
between life and death
“Said the spokesperson, while seven other people were seriously injured.
The driver had finished his race by crashing into the window of a perfumery chain.
The facts took place near one of the busiest tourist and shopping streets in Berlin, and close to the square where a deadly Islamist attack took place in December 2016.
The man had been overpowered by passers-by and arrested in stride by the police.
At the time of the events, in the morning, the crowd was large in this district located near the zoological garden, in the west of the capital.
