A judge’s pretrial detention against the 50-Year-old arranged, which was on new year’s eve in NRW with his car intentionally into several numbers of people to hazards. The stop is considered to be racially motivated. The police has announced the first Details about the eight victims, all of which have a migration background. the
After the rampage travel in Bottrop must the suspect 50-Year-old in custody. The Prosecutor’s office had food tried by the competent district court warrant for multiple murder against the Essenes sought. A judge followed the request in the evening, as the police are now known.
The German from Essen, was controlled in the new year’s eve night his car into several pedestrians in groups, and at least eight people injured, one of them seriously. Police and prosecutors are currently looking at a targeted attack that may have a racist Background.
The police has announced the first Details about the victims: Apparently, he was looking for you according to your appearance. On the Berliner Platz in Bottrop, the man captured with his car, a 46-year-old woman from Syria, which was hurt by dangerous to life. Currently there is no life after a successful emergency surgery is a risk. The 48-year-old husband and the two 16-and 27-year-old daughters were also injured. A 4-year-old Boy and his 29-year-old mother from Afghanistan, as well as a 10-had to be treated-year-old girl from Syria, due to their injuries medically. Before police took the driver, recorded at the Frintroper street, a 34-year-old Essen with Turkish roots, and wounded him on the foot.
NRW-Minister of the interior, Herbert Reul, confirmed on Wednesday morning, the first determination results from the day before: In previous interviews, the 50-Year-old “foreigners’m responsible for everything.” Therefore, examine the daily mirror, according to the office of the attorney General, whether she takes over the investigation. The rampage travel will be classified as a terrorist attack, it was said security sources. The offender was comparable with radical Islamists, the attack on their own.
According to the current status of the investigation has acted in the offender spontaneously, without any elaborate plans, to be without part of a network or contacts in the extreme right-wing scene. So far, the police haven’t found a starting point, “the fact that this man has any Connections, or that he himself in some kind of radical right-wing circles moves,” said Reul, the station WDR5. It notes that the alleged perpetrator “has developed from a personal concern and displeasure out then hatred of Strangers”. However, the police investigation would take time.
editors ‘ note
In General, the SZ reports on ethnic, religious or national affiliations of alleged offenders. We deviate only in case of justified public interest of this in the press code agreed line. This can be in the case of exceptional crimes, such as terrorist attacks or felony, or for crimes committed from a larger group (such as new year’s eve 2015 in Cologne, Germany). There is a public interest also in the case of tracing calls, or if the biography of a suspected Person for the Offence are of importance. We decide, in individual cases, and are generally reluctant to stir up any prejudice against minorities.
