No clear motive emerged from the first interrogations of the suspect in the attack in Trier, police in the West German city report. According to the police, the 51-year-old man made varying and confused statements, which could not be tied to.
The hearing will continue for the next few days. In the interest of the investigation, the police do not want to disclose details of the interrogation, but, as yesterday, state that there is no evidence whatsoever to suspect political or religious motives.
The public prosecutor will order a psychiatric investigation into the question to what extent the perpetrator was accountable, but for the time being assumes that he was in any case not completely insane.
Dutch-German wounded
It turns out that there are eighteen injured and not fifteen, as reported yesterday. The perpetrator is charged with fivefold murder and 18-fold attempted murder and serious injury. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he wanted to kill and injure as many people as possible in the pedestrian zone of Trier with his Land Rover.
The victims were commemorated this morning, by a small crowd and an emotional mayor:
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