A man has to drive in the new year’s eve night in Bottrop apparently targeted people and at least five people were injured. NRW-Minister of the interior, Reul said of the 50-Year-old to have had the clear intention to kill “foreigners”. Among the Victims were people from Syria and Afghanistan. the Benedikt Müller, Düsseldorf
The driver who has to drive in the Ruhr area on purpose more pedestrian, apparently had a xenophobic motive. The man had the “clear intention to kill foreigners,” said the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of the interior, Herbert Reul (CDU) on Tuesday in Bottrop. The case had to be taken “very seriously”, it will be determined with high pressure. At least five people had been injured in the journey in the new year’s eve, in part difficult to
The new year was an hour old, since the man made food made with his car, apparently hunting to third-party pedestrian. The 50-Year-old was driving early Tuesday morning with his silver Mercedes in Bottrop into a group of Pedestrians. “The investigating authorities are currently looking at a targeted attack”, police and prosecutors. The investigators have, therefore, also “information about a mental illness of the driver”.
Three minutes after the turn of the year have to keep the motorists in the West of Bottrop first, the “obvious purpose” to a single pedestrian, reports the authorities. This is allegedly the first victim could still be saved; the identity was on Tuesday, not known.
After that, was the alleged perpetrator about two kilometres further on, in the midst of the new year’s eve celebrations in the city centre, in the group of passers-by hazards, including people from Syria and Afghanistan included. On Tuesday afternoon, one of the injured in hospital, said a police spokeswoman.
Finally, the motorist had fled the few miles back to eat. There he tried to drive into a group of people that have been waiting at a bus stop. According to NRW-Minister of the interior, Reul it has given then a fourth crime scene. When you try to ride in as a group, had been violated, a Person can easily. Then the police arrested the man according to its own information, and arrested. He had expressed a desire to be xenophobic. The police headquarters Münster leads the investigation into the case.
The attack is reminiscent of an incident in Recklinghausen at the end of December. Also at that time, a motorist drove his car into a group of Pedestrians who had been waiting at a bus stop. An 88-year-old woman died and eight people were injured. Investigators that the driver was mentally ill. So far, the police have no evidence about a possible connection between the case in Recklinghausen and travel in the new year’s eve night, a spokeswoman said.
