After a deranged terrorist in Mannheim, Germany reportedly crashed a car into a crowd, killing two people and injuring ten more in the most recent incident in recent months, German police reported that they had arrested a guy.
Officers were seen encircling a severely damaged black Ford close to the city’s major shopping strip in photos released by German media.
According to police, they think the act was intentional and was carried out by a single suspect who they claimed didn’t seem to have any political motivations. According to authorities, the individual was a 40-year-old German national from the Rhineland-Palatinate, a nearby state.
Since a Saudi national allegedly crashed a car into a crowded Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg on December 20, killing three people and injuring hundreds more, this is the third alleged fatal ramming attack in Germany.
An Afghan immigrant was detained by police last month after the suspect allegedly crashed into a crowd in Munich while Vice President JD Vance and other dignitaries were there for a high-profile security conference.
Dozens were injured and two people were killed in the attack.
Public sentiment against immigration from the Middle East and Afghanistan has shifted as a result of these and other Muslim refugee attacks, and it sharply shifted to the right in last month’s general election.
Following the arrest of a 28-year-old Afghan in January after he stabbed a two-year-old boy and a father, leaving a little Syrian girl seriously injured, Friedrich Merz, the center-right Christian Democratic Union candidate, promised to impose a tough immigration crackdown if elected.
Then, one day prior to the election, a Syrian national was detained on suspicion of killing a Spanish tourist at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, which is across from the U.S. Embassy. According to authorities, the attack was antisemitic in motivation.
A similar anti-immigration campaign helped the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, treble its vote, while Merz went on to win the election.
In May, an Afghan immigrant was accused of killing a police officer in a stabbing attack in Mannheim while attacking an anti-Islamic politician.
A Syrian man was arrested in August following a knife assault in Solingen that took three lives and was later attributed to Islamic State.
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