Mannheim mourns: commemorate the victims of the terrible amocran!

Mannheim mourns: commemorate the victims of the terrible amocran!

Mannheim, Deutschland - Mannheim is under the impression of a tragic amocation that demanded two lives on Rosenmontag. A 40-year-old German raced with his car at high speed into a crowd on the busy main shopping street. In addition to the two fatalities, eleven other people were seriously injured. The perpetrator, mentally ill, was arrested quickly, and a judge issued an arrest warrant for two murder and attempted murder in further cases. The incident hit the city in a frightening way, since it was only less than a year ago that the presumably Islamist attack on a police officer was affected, such as the Stuttgarter News reported.

grief and solidarity in Mannheim

In memory of the victims, a moving funeral service took place in the city center of Mannheim, in which around 450 people took part. The Catholic Archbishop Stephan Burger asked for consolation for the relatives in a prayer request, while the Evangelical Dean Ralph Hartmann emphasized that wounds should not generate hatred. This moment of collective grief and reflection illustrated solidarity within the city community. Mayor Christian Specht praised the rapid reaction of the emergency services and enveloped the taxi driver who caught the amok driver in heroism, as he bravely admitted to other people's security.

An eyewitness, Enes Yildiz, who was directly at the crime scene the day after the amocray, describes the changed feeling of security in the city: "You can feel this energy of fear and death." Despite the oppressive circumstances, he remains optimistic that the city can take strength out of this trauma. Yildiz laid flowers on Paradeplatz, where the shattering act took place, and shared the emotional pictures of his memories. The dismay in Mannheim is great, and places that once symbolized, have now become sites of the memory, which also reinforced the tragedy of the event, as in a report of the Katholische " News agency is recorded.