A car has been driven into a crowd of people in the western German city of Mannheim, causing casualties, local media report, and the city is in lockdown as police tell residents to stay at home. The Mail has more.
A black car drove at high speed into people, travelling from the centrally located Paradeplatz square towards the city’s landmark water tower, the Mannheim24 news website reported, adding that several people were severely injured.
At least one person was killed during the incident, DW reported this afternoon, citing local media.
One person was also seen lying under a tarpaulin on site, according to a reporter for the Deutsche Presse-Agentur agency. It was unclear whether he or she had been injured or killed.
Several people were seen lying on the ground in the aftermath, with two people apparently being resuscitated, an eye witness told Reuters.
Another witness, sitting at a restaurant on Paradeplatz at the time, told Welt that “all hell broke loose”. He said he did not see the crash, but “people running away in panic”.
The incident occurred as crowds gathered in cities across regions including Germany’s Rhineland for parades to mark the carnival season.
Police were on high alert for this year’s carnival parades after social media accounts connected to ISIS called for attacks on the events in Cologne and Nuremberg. …
Security has been a key concern in Germany following a string of violent attacks in recent weeks, including deadly car rammings in Magdeburg in December and in Munich last month, as well as a stabbing in Mannheim in May 2024.
The Telegraph reports that the city is in lockdown as a “major police operation” is underway and police ask the public to “keep inside their homes”:
A major police operation is taking place in the western German city of Mannheim amid reports of a suspected car ramming.
A car reportedly drove into a parade ground and hit a group of people, according to witnesses.
There are reports of multiple casualties.
Local police said a large-scale police operation was under way in the city centre, without giving further details.
“Due to the police deployment, citizens are asked to avoid Mannheim city centre and to take a wide detour,” Mannheim police said in a statement. …
One seller at the market told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper: “It is terrible here, nobody knows what happened, you only see injured people and the dead, and you don’t know what to do.”
Reports of fatalities have not been confirmed by authorities.
Police in the Mannheim have asked the public to stay away from the downtown area and keep inside their homes.
Update: More details have emerged about the attack. The Telegraph reports:
Two people were killed and several others seriously injured when a motorist rammed a car into a crowd of people in the German city of Mannheim on Monday.
A 40-year-old German citizen, who reportedly has mental health issues, was arrested by police. The suspect was taken to hospital, where he was receiving treatment on Monday evening.
CCTV footage of the suspected attack showed a black Ford driving at high speed towards Paradeplatz, a pedestrianised square in Mannheim’s city centre.
Thomas Strobl, the Interior Minister of Baden-Wurttemberg state, confirmed on Monday that “two people died from their injuries and several others are seriously injured.”
Officials at Mannheim’s University Hospital said two adults and a child were receiving “acute medical care” after they were struck by the vehicle.
The driver’s motive was unclear, though it comes after a string of terrorist incidents in Germany involving knife and car-ramming attacks in crowded areas.
While the suspect arrested in Mannheim was a German citizen, similar recent attacks in the cities of Magdeburg and Munich are alleged to have been committed by refugees or rejected asylum seekers.
Eugyppius has some more details gathered from leaks and social media, some of which he warns may be unreliable:
Today at 12:15pm, in Mannheim, a 40 year-old German man named Alexander S. drove his black Ford Fiesta through a crowd gathered on the Planken, a pedestrian boulevard. His target was apparently the annual Fasnachtsmarkt, a Carnival market with food carts and rides for children. He killed two people, one of them a woman and another a 50 year-old man. Among the five seriously injured are several children, two of whom witnesses say lost their legs.
Alexander S. fled the scene in his Fiesta, and a taxi driver (Afzal M.) pursued him to the Spatzenbrücke, which leads across a Neckar canal. There Alexander S. disembarked from his badly damaged car and fired a gas pistol at his pursuer before fleeing on foot. Police arrested Alexander S. near the Mannheim harbour half an hour later. Before they could take him into custody, he shot himself in the mouth with a blank round. He is presently in hospital in critical condition. Police sources report to media that he is understood to suffer from psychological problems.
I followed this story all day, and I regret that I have no additional information to offer. Authorities have released almost no details, and most of what I provide here is based on anonymous leaks from police sources; some of it may be unreliable. I at least wanted to confirm that, contrary to many social media rumours and the all-too-familiar nature of today’s events, what happened in Mannheim was neither an act of Islamist terrorism nor another instance of migrant violence.
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It was Trump’s fault.
The Muslim Jihadist was forced to react to AfD’s rise to electoral prominence.
The white girl he raped was not young enough.
Times are tough.
Clearly it’s the AfD’s fault.
Some poor innocent refugee experienced so much institutional racism and hostility from the extreme right, he just couldn’t take any more and expressed his grievances in the form of a largely peaceful demonstration.
We won’t be divided. Willkommenskultur. Wir schaffen das.
Exactly what I was going to say, they said the same tosh when “an Suv drove into a marching band” in America, they make you sick with all this automatic immigrant apologising
Even “was driven” is too watered down and passive. It should read “A man (whether or not identified) drove a car at high speed into people. Otherwise it looks like it’s the car’s fault!
They had their chance at the recent election and they blew it. As did we. The destruction of our countries seems to be just gradual enough that too many are still complacent/deluded.
No. In the recent elections 80% voted for the status-quo Parties, so the AfD with second highest vote won’t be involved in the next (eternal- coalition Government.
They either like it or feel it’s a justified punishment for some event in the past that no one now living bears any responsibility for. Since no amount of punishment can atone for a crime the modern Germans didn’t commit, unless the Germans wake up and get rid of their ruler-scum, their ruler-scum will destroy them.
West German methods to coax voters into voting as they’re supposed to vote are more subtle (if one wants to call all public and private MSM shouting “AfD Nazis!” 24×7 subtle) but nevertheless equally effective.
The real news about this election is that the AfD doubled its share of the vote (from 10% to 20%).
Well of course these Vehicular Jihad attacks are instigated, coordinated, trained, funded by the Global Caliphate mob! The Southport Stabber was known to have attended the Southport Mosque, but has the imam of said mosque ever even been questioned, investigated or arrested? No, they all whined about hurty feelings after angry locals threw things at the mosque, and were comforted by Liberal Lefty Locals who rushed to volunteer to clean everything up for them, like good little dhimmis, while the Angry Locals were arrested.
Why? Are the muzzies queuing in cars waiting their turn for a bit of ‘kill the whities?’
Heretic
4 months ago
Vehicular Jihad: one of the many approved jihad methods for killing unarmed infidels at minimum risk to yourself, in order to gain your entry ticket to “Paradise”. Other methods include Rape Jihad, Food Contamination Jihad, Medical Jihad, Shooting Soldiers While They Are Having a Tea Break Jihad, Baby-Strangling Jihad, Setting Fire to Churches during Services & Shooting the Christians as They Come Running Out Jihad, Throat-Slitting & Beheading Jihad, Throwing Grenades into Churches Jihad, Pushing Infidels into Rivers & Canals Jihad, Putting Drugs into Pub Drinks Jihad, Stabbing Little Girls Jihad, and myriad other methods.
Schoolboy Jihad includes picking a fight with a British classmate before the whole school, then running away, returning with carloads full of Muslim Men armed with clawhammers, who attacked the unarmed Briton, bashing his skull to cause permanent brain damage, then all piling back into their cars and driving away. The school authorities said they could do nothing in response, except give the Muslim boy a severe detention… of 3 hours.
Henry Webster was the English schoolboy’s name, if I remember correctly.
I haven’t seen any actual images but various German acquaintances of mine claim this “40 year old German” was dark-skinned and had a black beard (in rather sarcastic tones, as we’re pretty used to these kinds of official lies¹).
¹ Recently, a German ‘expert’ demanded that the man who was responsible for the Aschaffenburg knife attack shouldn’t be tried for murder because, due to a “psychic illness” (details to be kept secret to protect his privacy), he was not mentally competent enough to understand that killing people with a knife is a crime.
Without wishing to detract from the crime itself, I find the response from the police that they “asked the public to stay away from the downtown area and keep inside their homes” as rather frightening. Have the police got used to telling people to stay inside their homes? Clearly nobody wants gawkers wandering around the scene of the crime but having many eyes open for suspicious behaviour if the police are hunting someone is more useful than locking everyone up at home. I wonder if an announcement was made later that people could leave their homes.
Heretic
4 months ago
Whoa, wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute!!! (as they would say across the Pond)
What on earth can Eugyppius be thinking by making this statement:
“I at least wanted to confirm that, contrary to many social media rumours and the all-too-familiar nature of today’s events, what happened in Mannheim was neither an act of Islamist terrorism nor another instance of migrant violence.”
NO, Eugyppius, you have not confirmed that at all. This “German man” could be a zealous convert to Islam for all we know, or more likely a mind-controlled Globalist assassin, sent to perpetuate the Myth of the White Terrorist.
See how the “hero” in this staged terrorist act is THE MUSLIM TAXI DRIVER named Azfal M. (a name common in the Indian Subcontinent. Notice they don’t elaborate on the “M.” in case it stands for Mohammed), who “pursued him to the Spatzenbrücke“?
So Evil White Terrorist kills White People using his vehicle as a weapon, and is chased down by Good Muslim Taxi Driver Immigrant Hero???
Gosh, how convenient for the Globalists!!!
Just like that Fake Breivik in Norway, raged against Muslim Immigrants in his “manifesto”, then murdered 77 Indigenous Norwegian teenagers at a summer camp, without attacking any mosques, or harming a single hair on a Muslim’s head.
“Alexander S. flees after the crime. But taxi driver Afzal M. reacts with presence of mind. He immediately takes up the chase with his car. The taxi driver’s boss says to RTL.de: “Our driver stopped the alleged perpetrator near the labor court.” Alexander S. then got out and shot at the taxi! Fortunately, the taxi driver was not hit, reports his boss.”
I can’t really pin this down but this guy decidedly doesn’t look German to me. Vaguely Turkish, but not really either. It would be interesting to know the surname (Why is that kept secret, anyway? Everybody could immediately place it?) but Alexander principally suggests an eastern European origin. For as long as the police hasn’t come clean on this, ie, until we know who this guy really is and who is parents were, I’ll continue to suspect that there’s something fishy about the official story we’re not supposed to know about.
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Exactly.
It was Trump’s fault.
The Muslim Jihadist was forced to react to AfD’s rise to electoral prominence.
The white girl he raped was not young enough.
Times are tough.
Let’s not jump to conclusions!
Clearly it’s the AfD’s fault.
Some poor innocent refugee experienced so much institutional racism and hostility from the extreme right, he just couldn’t take any more and expressed his grievances in the form of a largely peaceful demonstration.
We won’t be divided. Willkommenskultur. Wir schaffen das.
yes, time to ban the AfD. It’s the only reasonable response.
Or is it, we’ve shafted you?
“A black car drove at high speed into people…”
These driverless cars are a menace.
Unless of course: A black car was driven at high speed into people.
Exactly what I was going to say, they said the same tosh when “an Suv drove into a marching band” in America, they make you sick with all this automatic immigrant apologising
Presumably the German government blames car dealers – in the same way that our scum-government blames Amazon for knife crime.
Well they *are* doing their best to destroy their own auto industry.
Your kitchen plus garden shed contains all the deadly weapons you could ever need as an aspiring criminal!
Even “was driven” is too watered down and passive. It should read “A man (whether or not identified) drove a car at high speed into people. Otherwise it looks like it’s the car’s fault!
Stand by for, “Not believed to be terrorism-related…”
…Until a few days later, “Linked to known terrorist organisations.”
How many more of these tragedies will it take before state-sponsored pandering to D.I.E. comes to its senses?
And don’t forget not to speculate!
Oh and mental illness!
And a one off random attack!, How many more one off random attacks has there been now?
And “on the watch list”.
And “Police are still searching for a motive”.
And “No photos or names of the perpetrators are available”.
And “Anyone spreading misinformation about this attack will be jailed.”
The Germans know what they have to do to stop this nightmare. Will they do what’s necessary?
They had their chance at the recent election and they blew it. As did we. The destruction of our countries seems to be just gradual enough that too many are still complacent/deluded.
You’re absolutely right.
No. In the recent elections 80% voted for the status-quo Parties, so the AfD with second highest vote won’t be involved in the next (eternal- coalition Government.
They must like it.
They either like it or feel it’s a justified punishment for some event in the past that no one now living bears any responsibility for. Since no amount of punishment can atone for a crime the modern Germans didn’t commit, unless the Germans wake up and get rid of their ruler-scum, their ruler-scum will destroy them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_East_German_general_election
West German methods to coax voters into voting as they’re supposed to vote are more subtle (if one wants to call all public and private MSM shouting “AfD Nazis!” 24×7 subtle) but nevertheless equally effective.
The real news about this election is that the AfD doubled its share of the vote (from 10% to 20%).
They can start by arresting ex-Communist East German Youth Stasi Member Angela Kasner Merkel and charge her with CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
i’m not saying there isn’t too much immigration. I’m not saying there aren’t crazies out there.
But I can’t avoid a nagging feeling that these incidents in Germany aren’t just randos losing their heads with hatred going on copycat killing sprees.
I have no evidence to support this assertion but I would wager (not a huge amount mind you) that this is somehow instigated/coordinated.
And I have no evidence and even less to say about by whom.
Nah. It’s lone-wolves innit.
Well of course these Vehicular Jihad attacks are instigated, coordinated, trained, funded by the Global Caliphate mob! The Southport Stabber was known to have attended the Southport Mosque, but has the imam of said mosque ever even been questioned, investigated or arrested? No, they all whined about hurty feelings after angry locals threw things at the mosque, and were comforted by Liberal Lefty Locals who rushed to volunteer to clean everything up for them, like good little dhimmis, while the Angry Locals were arrested.
…”the city is in Lockdown…”
Why? Are the muzzies queuing in cars waiting their turn for a bit of ‘kill the whities?’
Vehicular Jihad: one of the many approved jihad methods for killing unarmed infidels at minimum risk to yourself, in order to gain your entry ticket to “Paradise”. Other methods include Rape Jihad, Food Contamination Jihad, Medical Jihad, Shooting Soldiers While They Are Having a Tea Break Jihad, Baby-Strangling Jihad, Setting Fire to Churches during Services & Shooting the Christians as They Come Running Out Jihad, Throat-Slitting & Beheading Jihad, Throwing Grenades into Churches Jihad, Pushing Infidels into Rivers & Canals Jihad, Putting Drugs into Pub Drinks Jihad, Stabbing Little Girls Jihad, and myriad other methods.
Schoolboy Jihad includes picking a fight with a British classmate before the whole school, then running away, returning with carloads full of Muslim Men armed with clawhammers, who attacked the unarmed Briton, bashing his skull to cause permanent brain damage, then all piling back into their cars and driving away. The school authorities said they could do nothing in response, except give the Muslim boy a severe detention… of 3 hours.
Henry Webster was the English schoolboy’s name, if I remember correctly.
I haven’t seen any actual images but various German acquaintances of mine claim this “40 year old German” was dark-skinned and had a black beard (in rather sarcastic tones, as we’re pretty used to these kinds of official lies¹).
¹ Recently, a German ‘expert’ demanded that the man who was responsible for the Aschaffenburg knife attack shouldn’t be tried for murder because, due to a “psychic illness” (details to be kept secret to protect his privacy), he was not mentally competent enough to understand that killing people with a knife is a crime.
Bless him, what a life the poor fella has. He should be put out of his misery.
Oh and let me guess he refused to take his meds because he did not like injections.
This black car that drove itself into the crowd can only hinder Germany’s self-driving car development program – unless it was a Tesla of course…
Without wishing to detract from the crime itself, I find the response from the police that they “asked the public to stay away from the downtown area and keep inside their homes” as rather frightening. Have the police got used to telling people to stay inside their homes? Clearly nobody wants gawkers wandering around the scene of the crime but having many eyes open for suspicious behaviour if the police are hunting someone is more useful than locking everyone up at home. I wonder if an announcement was made later that people could leave their homes.
Whoa, wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute!!! (as they would say across the Pond)
What on earth can Eugyppius be thinking by making this statement:
“I at least wanted to confirm that, contrary to many social media rumours and the all-too-familiar nature of today’s events, what happened in Mannheim was neither an act of Islamist terrorism nor another instance of migrant violence.”
NO, Eugyppius, you have not confirmed that at all. This “German man” could be a zealous convert to Islam for all we know, or more likely a mind-controlled Globalist assassin, sent to perpetuate the Myth of the White Terrorist.
See how the “hero” in this staged terrorist act is THE MUSLIM TAXI DRIVER named Azfal M. (a name common in the Indian Subcontinent. Notice they don’t elaborate on the “M.” in case it stands for Mohammed), who “pursued him to the Spatzenbrücke“?
So Evil White Terrorist kills White People using his vehicle as a weapon, and is chased down by Good Muslim Taxi Driver Immigrant Hero???
Gosh, how convenient for the Globalists!!!
Just like that Fake Breivik in Norway, raged against Muslim Immigrants in his “manifesto”, then murdered 77 Indigenous Norwegian teenagers at a summer camp, without attacking any mosques, or harming a single hair on a Muslim’s head.
Already the press will start lauding the Muslim Taxi Driver as a Hero chasing down the Evil White Terrorist.
Death driver of Mannheim! Alexander S. shot at his pursuers, then turned the gun on himself
“Alexander S. flees after the crime. But taxi driver Afzal M. reacts with presence of mind. He immediately takes up the chase with his car. The taxi driver’s boss says to RTL.de: “Our driver stopped the alleged perpetrator near the labor court.” Alexander S. then got out and shot at the taxi! Fortunately, the taxi driver was not hit, reports his boss.”
I can’t really pin this down but this guy decidedly doesn’t look German to me. Vaguely Turkish, but not really either. It would be interesting to know the surname (Why is that kept secret, anyway? Everybody could immediately place it?) but Alexander principally suggests an eastern European origin. For as long as the police hasn’t come clean on this, ie, until we know who this guy really is and who is parents were, I’ll continue to suspect that there’s something fishy about the official story we’re not supposed to know about.