An 83-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man were killed and 11 others were injured — five severely — when a man drove a car into a lunch-hour crowd in the southwestern German city of Mannheim on Mondaygo.aff, the authorities said.
The driver is a 40-year-old German citizen who lived in neighboring Ludwigshafen, the police and the public attorney said on Monday evening, adding that they did not think the man had a political motive.
The police arrested the man, who was not named publicly, soon after the event and said they thought he was the only person involved. They said they believed the act was deliberate and on Monday night were searching the man’s home as well as his internet history to help understand his motive.
The police said the driver had a criminal record that included assault, a drunk-driving charge and a conviction for hate speech, for a right-wing comment he made on Facebook in 2018. The man, who had worked as a landscaper, had a history of mental illness,89vip cassino the authorities said, and he had a weapon that fired blanks on him during the attack.
There were more than 300 police officers on the scene immediately after the attack.
Several recent ramming attacks had put Germans on edge ahead of national elections last month.
“Once again, we mourn with Mannheim. Once again, we mourn with the families of the victims of a senseless act of violence and fear for the injured,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a statement.
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The downward drift in rates toward 6 percent is “reviving purchase and refinance demand for many consumersgo.aff,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement.
