Friday’s incident, in which the driver hit a group of people in the center of Stuttgart and injured at least three seriously, apparently he was not an intentional attack. According to the police there, it is not yet suggested, TASR writes according to AFP and DPA reports.
“Based on the current investigation … Colleagues at the scene of the crime believe that this was an unfortunate accident,” Informed the police on the social network X.
Likewise, rescuers and firefighters have already said previously called. At the same time, they updated the injured balance, with three people suffered seriously and several other minor injuries. The police reported a total of eight injured.
They detained the driver on the spot. Bild writes that he is a 42-year-old man who apparently lost control of his luxury SUV. At the pedestrian crossing at the tram stop, he subsequently crashed into people, among whom witnesses were a woman with a stroller.
The incident occurred around 17.50. The police called for him to avoid the city center, and there were also several exclusions in transport.
German The security forces have recently been in a state of increased alert in connection with the entire series of attacks that have occurred in the past months: V December in the Christmas markets in Magdeburg, where six people were killed, an incident in Munich took place in February when a man hit a group of demonstrators by car, fatally injuring a woman and a child, and in March in Mannheim, where two people died.
