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WATCH police arrest driver who plowed through pedestrians in central Trier, Germany | WATCH police arrest driver who plowed through pedestrians in central Trier, Germany |
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The moment police arrested a car driver who sped though a pedestrian area in the German town of Trier, killing at least two people and injuring several others, has been allegedly caught on video and shared online. | The moment police arrested a car driver who sped though a pedestrian area in the German town of Trier, killing at least two people and injuring several others, has been allegedly caught on video and shared online. |
The clip circulating on social media appears to show three officers pinning the suspect to the ground and handcuffing him as several others secure the perimeter. | |
The dark grey Range Rover, which was apparently used in the attack, was also captured in the footage. The police allegedly had to ram the vehicle with a car in order to stop it. | |
Another video allegedly shows four officers carrying the detained man into a building. | |
The car in the video matches the description of the one that witnesses said drove through a pedestrian area in central Trier at high speed on Tuesday. People were “flying into the air” after being hit by the SUV, the witnesses said. | |
The incident left at least two people dead and 15 others injured, Wolfram Leibe, the Trier mayor, told the local media. | |
The police have cordoned off the city’s center, while they investigate the circumstances and the driver’s possible motive. | |
The suspect is a 51-year-old male resident of the Trier-Saarburg area, the police said on Twitter. | |
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