An AfghanMuslim immigrant terrorist ran over a crowd of pedestrians at full speed on a pedestrian street in the center of Leipzig, Germany.
The city's mayor, Burkhard Jung, confirmed to reporters that at least two people were killed and eight injured.
Among the injured, a spokesman for the municipality specified that two are in serious condition, while the police arrested the driver at the scene, who showed psychotic behavior when arrested.
The terrorist's vehicle.
According to local media outlet Radio Leipzig, a Volkswagen SUV with visible damage was seen driving at high speed through
the central pedestrian area.
Eyewitnesses quoted by the same radio station described a scene of chaos, with several bodies covered with sheets on the street and at least one person stabbed among the victims.
The attack shook a city that, like the rest of Germany and all of Europe, has been recording a worrying series of violent episodes in public spaces.
Last year, two people were killed in the city of Mannheim when another terrorist hit a group of pedestrians with his vehicle, a few weeks after a similar attack in Munich against a demonstration that left two dead and more than 40 injured, including several children. Both cases added to a list that continues to grow
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In December 2024, another terrorist rammed his vehicle into a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, leaving several people dead in one of the most shocking attacks in recent years in the
country.
Months earlier, a knife attack during a festival in the city of Solingen had generated a similar shock in German public opinion and reopened the debate about security at mass events, in a context of increasing massacres committed by illegal immigrants.
Germany, like other European countries, has been facing the challenge of protecting pedestrian areas, markets and public gatherings against this type of attack for years.
The Leipzig case is under investigation. The German authorities did not confirm the attacker's motivation or provide more information about his profile, although the description of the driver allows us
