Attack of Messer in Lübeck "Fire, fire, here is a psychopath" – A bus driver reports violence
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The prosecutor announces the first details of the crime
The prosecutor Ulla Hingst said that the context of the crime is still completely obscure. The author is in custody. "We are investigating at high pressure, the accused is still interrogated."
He is already a hero: During the knife attack on a bus from Lübeck, the bus driver intervened bravely. The witnesses report horrible scenes. The exact condition of the injured person is still not clear.
V Busy oll is the white bus on the way from Lübeck to the Baltic Sea resort Travemünde. Many people are on their way to the Friday afternoon weekend. Some may want to go to the Travemünder Woche, which is scheduled to open in the evening. Dramatic scenes suddenly appear on bus 30 of Travemünder Landstrasse in Kücknitz district
Shortly before Kücknitz station, one of the passengers stabbed the other passengers with a knife. At 13:47, the police are alerted. The driver reacts with the spirit: he stops the bus and opens the doors so that people can escape. Other passengers can then overwhelm the attacker.
Officers arrest the alleged perpetrator soon after, enclosing the area around the bus stop. The attacker is in custody, says Ulla Hingst, spokesman for the Lübeck prosecutor. And the Minister of Interior of Schleswig-Holstein Hans-Joachim Grote (CDU) said late afternoon during a site visit: "My last state is that". there are nine wounded: six by knife wounds ". Read also
The facts and their exact sequence are still not clear early Friday night. According to the prosecutor, the alleged perpetrator is a 34-year-old German citizen. But he was not born in Germany. His residence is Lübeck. The alleged perpetrator had an accelerator backpack, which was lit in the bus. There is no evidence of an explosive device.
"As if two peoples were attacking each other"
He heard terrible screams, said local resident Lothar Heuer. "As if two peoples were attacking each other." Then he hastened to help. The "Lübeck News" quote an eyewitness to the incident: "One of the victims had just offered his place to an elderly woman, while the offender stabbed him in the chest. It was a carnage. The witness is taken care of by the police after the violence. A local resident describes the event as follows: "The passengers jumped off the bus and shouted .That was terrible."
The bus driver, Peter S, probably prevented the worst, he told reporters the terrible seconds. On the bus, ladies would have suddenly shouted: "Fire, fire, it's a psychopath". He looked in the rearview mirror and discovered the flames. He drove straight to the right and watched as all passengers could get off the bus.
When the bus of the bus started to burn, he had resorted to the extinguisher, which he always had on board. "I started doing three four strokes, I got my foot wrong – with something of the culprit," he says in a calm voice. This probably wanted to prevent the action of deletion. At that time, but also already the police and the firemen arrived.
The investigators do not exclude anything for the moment
The riddles prevail Friday night on the motives of the alleged perpetrator. "Nothing can be ruled out, not even a terrorist history," says Hingst. But there is no such advice. Police hope to get more information on the hearing of the man scheduled for the evening
The Minister of the Interior Grote and the Mayor of Lübeck, Jan Lindenau (SPD), themselves have an idea of the situation at the crime scene. Lindenau then speaks of "a horrible act". Grote was already in the area anyway. He originally wanted to attend the opening of the Woche Travemünder. It would be after the act of violence on the bus but "really moved," he says.
Hans-Joachim Grote (CDU, l), Minister of the Interior Schleswig-Holstein and Jan Lindenau (SPD), Mayor of Lübeck, can be informed on the scene of the police
Source: dpa / Markus Scholz
Now, investigators are investigating the antecedents of the alleged perpetrator. "All of this is currently underway, with the police and the intelligence service," says Grote. Authorities looked at whether there were suspicious human links. "But according to the current state, we do not know it at least now." Even according to the prosecutor, there is no evidence of radicalization of the alleged perpetrator.
After towing the bus in the early evening, a white extinguisher remains on Travemünder Allee. There, the bus stopped during the attack.
