Another German car ramming

[Spare tyre]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy3eeyq939t

[We are all Brexiteers now]

Is it them again?

[anonymous-user]

No mention of the perpetrator, I think that means it is another welsh boy from the valleys?

[Xenoous]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

No mention of the perpetrator, I think that means it is another welsh boy from the valleys?

It does. The headline specifically states that it was the cars fault. Self driving cars should not be allowed on the street.

BBC News said:

One person dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim, police say

[Four Litre]

Absolutely crazy situation Europe is in. I thought we had it bad with imported fanatics, looks like Germany are on another level all together.

[g4ry13]

The turkeys keep voting for Christmas.

They had their chance at the recent election and have decided to continue with this stuff happening.

[No ideas for a name]

Bild report now two dead and that the attacker is German.

https://www.bild.de/news/buerger-sollen-innenstadt...

"The man is a 40-year-old German from Rhineland-Palatinate. This has been confirmed by Baden-Württemberg's Minister of the Interior Thomas Strobl (CDU). The man is injured in a clinic."

ETA: 'German' could mean several things.

To me (from Bild) , it looks like the car has stopped some distance from the peds. i.e. has continued on after the collision.

Edited by No ideas for a name on Monday 3rd March 16:03

[brake fader]

Candles and flowers , rinse and repeat

[donkmeister]

Being German, presumably the precipitating factors were that the driver consumed a surfeit of beer and pork before driving.

Or was there a religious motivation? Have the Lutherans ramped things up since their early days of doing a bit of light fly-posting?

[airbusA346]

According to Bild the driver shot himself in the mouth with a blank gun during his arrest, causing life-threatening injuries.

[otolith]

Initial reports suggest that some of the assumptions made here are not going to age well.

[Blue62]

otolith said:

Initial reports suggest that some of the assumptions made here are not going to age well.

I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions, can make you look like a far right arse!

[Arkose]

airbusA346 said:

According to Bild the driver shot himself in the mouth with a blank gun during his arrest, causing life-threatening injuries.

I don't really want to imagine shooting yourself in the mouth and surviving! - got make sure you do it properly!

[otolith]

Blue62 said:

I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions, can make you look like a far right arse!

Indeed.

Times said:

Unlike the series of attacks in Mannheim, Solingen, Magdeburg, Aschaffenburg and Munich that have shaken the country over the past year, this one is thought to have been carried out by a German citizen with no political motive.

Romeo Schüssler, the chief prosecutor leading the investigation, said the suspect had several previous convictions, including a short prison sentence for bodily harm and a fine for posting hate speech on Facebook in 2018. However, the suspect is not thought to have targeted any particular groups of people in the attack.

“According to our current knowledge, we can rule out the possibility of a politically motivated crime,” Schüssler said. “We have various pieces of evidence pointing to a psychiatric illness.”

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://w...

There is a (very German) name being reported in local media. Meanwhile on X, the same thing that happened with the Southport attack is happening.

https://x.com/Shayan86/status/1896652894189011248

[rscott]

Euronews reporting the driver had previous convictions for drink driving and the 2018 hate speech incident was classed as a politically motivated right wing crime. Although they also report that the police can't find any motive for this attack.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/03/mann...

So yep, does appear that several posters jumped to the wrong conclusion...

[s1962a]

rscott said:

Euronews reporting the driver had previous convictions for drink driving and the 2018 hate speech incident was classed as a politically motivated right wing crime. Although they also report that the police can't find any motive for this attack.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/03/mann...

So yep, does appear that several posters jumped to the wrong conclusion...

yes, but if it's a far right terrorist, then it has to be the fault of the immigrants. grrrr

[the cueball]

brake fader said:

Candles and flowers , rinse and repeat

Thoughts and prayers too though hopefully??

[Challo]

s1962a said:

rscott said:

Euronews reporting the driver had previous convictions for drink driving and the 2018 hate speech incident was classed as a politically motivated right wing crime. Although they also report that the police can't find any motive for this attack.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/03/mann...

So yep, does appear that several posters jumped to the wrong conclusion...

yes, but if it's a far right terrorist, then it has to be the fault of the immigrants. grrrr

You can see the usual posters pointing the blame at a) migrants b) islam c) brown people

I wonder if they will come back on here to correct their statements?

[donkmeister]

Challo said:

s1962a said:

rscott said:

Euronews reporting the driver had previous convictions for drink driving and the 2018 hate speech incident was classed as a politically motivated right wing crime. Although they also report that the police can't find any motive for this attack.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/03/mann...

So yep, does appear that several posters jumped to the wrong conclusion...

yes, but if it's a far right terrorist, then it has to be the fault of the immigrants. grrrr

You can see the usual posters pointing the blame at a) migrants b) islam c) brown people

I wonder if they will come back on here to correct their statements?

Who said any of that? Or are you projecting?

[tangerine_sedge]

donkmeister said:

Challo said:

s1962a said:

rscott said:

Euronews reporting the driver had previous convictions for drink driving and the 2018 hate speech incident was classed as a politically motivated right wing crime. Although they also report that the police can't find any motive for this attack.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/03/mann...

So yep, does appear that several posters jumped to the wrong conclusion...

yes, but if it's a far right terrorist, then it has to be the fault of the immigrants. grrrr

You can see the usual posters pointing the blame at a) migrants b) islam c) brown people

I wonder if they will come back on here to correct their statements?

Who said any of that? Or are you projecting?

You must have missed posts 2-7 on this thread. Obviously nothing explicit, but plenty of nudge nudge wink wink.

It seems the desire to blame 'others' is more important than the victims or actually getting facts correct.