Car “deliberately” races into crowd at Carnival in German town, injuring dozens, mostly children

As usual, other than the perp being described as a 29 year old ‘German National’, none of the reports give any description.

Mind you:

Floats for parades in Cologne, Duesseldorf, Mainz and elsewhere are notorious for their no-holds-barred satire; this year some roasted anti-migrant sentiment

A carnival float depicts a racist with a gun in his mouth , reading ‘from words to action’ during the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on February 24, 2020. (Martin Meissner/AP)

Biting commentary on racism in Germany featured prominently Monday among Carnival floats in western cities, hastily put together in the aftermath of a deadly far-right attack last week near Frankfurt.

The floats for parades in Cologne, Duesseldorf, Mainz and elsewhere are notorious for their no-holds-barred satire, and also took aim at Brexit, the potential candidates to take over leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party, and US President Donald Trump. One even featured a clown-like figure labeled “Carnival-Virus” thumbing its nose at an evil looking “Corona-Virus” creature.

The driver: 1. broke though a barrier meant to keep cars off the road of the carnival 2. Strongly accelerated right upon breaking through the barrier. But of course, how could that be an attack? #Volkmarsen

— CyberGirl (@CyberSpaceGal) February 24, 2020

Car plows into crowd at Carnival in German town, injuring dozens

Children among wounded in apparent attack at procession in Volkmarsen; police say some in critical condition; driver arrested

By David Rising and Frank Jordans, Times of Israel,

BERLIN (AP) — A man intentionally drove a car into a crowd of people at a Carnival parade in a small German town Monday, injuring dozens of people including children, police said.

The driver was arrested, but police couldn’t immediately provide details about the man’s motivations for crashing into the celebrations in Volkmarsen, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Berlin.

“We are working on the assumption that it was a deliberate act,” police spokesman Henning Hinn said, but added that further details of the driver’s motives weren’t yet known.

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Hinn said that “there were several dozen injured, among them some seriously and sadly also children.”

Some of the injuries were life-threatening, he said.

Emergency responders set up a makeshift clinic in a town pharmacy to treat casualties with minor injuries, the regional Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper reported. Witnesses said the car drove around a barrier blocking off traffic from the parade, according to the paper.

Video from the scene showed a silver Mercedes station wagon with local license plates on a sidewalk, its front windshield badly smashed and hood dented, and its hazard lights blinking, while emergency crews walked by. Forensic experts could be seen taking photos and measurements around the crashed car, walking around fragments of Carnival costumes that littered the ground.

The crash came amid the height of Germany’s celebration of Carnival, with the biggest parades in Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz.

Volkmarsen, which has a population of 7,000, is east of Duesseldorf, near Kassel.

Police in Western Hesse state tweeted that all other Carnival parades in the state Monday were ended after the crash as a precaution.

Police shut down the area to allow emergency crews to deal with the crash. Police said they couldn’t immediately provide further details and urged people not to spread “unconfirmed reports.”

#Germany #Volkmarsen

Images of the area were the incident happen. The prepartor is arrested. No info is given if he was drunk or he did this as a attack ! 15 Injured most were childrens pic.twitter.com/68OHYvKGWs

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