Man drove car into crowd in Germany – four injured

at Least four people have been injured in an attack in western Germany.

Shortly after the stroke of midnight at new year, tried a 50-year-old man drive his Mercedesbil into a group of people in the city of Bottrop. Pedestrians managed to jump away, reports the news agency AP.

the Man drove forward towards the central parts of the city and drove into the car in a crowd. The four people who were injured at the time were, among others, of syrian and afghan origin. Some of them were seriously injured.

and drove to the nearby city of Essen and continued in her journey to try to run more people. He was arrested shortly thereafter by police and is suspected of attempted murder.

German authorities said that the man stated several anti-immigration views when he was arrested, and he is suspected of having carried out attacks deliberately.

The investigating authorities investigating the matter with the assumption that this was a deliberate attack, possibly motivated by the driver's anti-immigration views, " says a police officer to the news agency.

the Police also tells us that there are signs that the man is mentally unstable.

several other events when the vehicle has run into the mobs. On 7 april 2018, there was a similar attack in which a minibus drove into an outdoor café in Münster. The man shot himself afterwards. Two people died at the attack, and 20 were injured. Later killed a further two of the injured persons. Also the time it was about a psycho man who was previously of good character.

In Berlin drove a man in a truck in a crowd at a christmas market on 19 december 2016. At the time, killed twelve people and some 50 were injured. It soon became clear that the Berlinattacken was an islamist terrorist acts and terrorist organisations Islamic state said to be behind the attack.