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Car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim, killing two

Alfio Marino, Rachel More and Sarah Marsh
Reuters
Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:05 UTC

Police secure the area after a car drove into a crowd, in Mannheim, Germany, March 3, 2025.

MANNHEIM, Germany, March 3 (Reuters) - A car drove into a crowd in the western German city of Mannheim on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 11 others, overshadowing carnival celebrations in the region where police had been on alert for attacks. Police detained the driver, who appeared to have ploughed intentionally into the crowd given the speed at which he was driving, prosecutors said in an act Interior Minister Nancy Faeser labeled "horror in broad daylight".

He did not appear to have been politically or religiously motivated, but there were reasons to believe he was psychologically unwell, said Mannheim Chief Public Prosecutor Romeo Schluessler. Prosecutors have initiated investigative proceedings against the suspect, a 40-year-old German man from the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on two counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder. The suspect has not been questioned yet as he had to undergo medical treatment after shooting himself in the mouth with a blank-firing gun after the attack.

He appeared to be a landscape gardener who lived alone, prosecutors said, adding that they were now investigating his home for clues.Security has been a key concern in Germany following a string of violent attacks in recent weeks, including deadly car rammings in Magdeburg in December and in Munich last month, as well as a stabbing in Mannheim in May 2024." The incident — like the terrible acts of the past months — serves as a stark reminder: we must do everything possible to prevent such acts," said Germany's likely next leader, Friedrich Merz, whose conservatives won a national election last month. "Germany must once again become a safe country. We will work with full determination to achieve this."

Messages of solidarity were sent from across Europe."To all the people of Mannheim, especially to all the relatives of the victims of the attack, to the German people. France is at your side," French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on the social media platform X.

Comment: Mayhem? The Wiki for the word mayhem, as a crime, explains the history and meaning:

Mayhem (from Anglo-Norman maiuhem, from Old French mahaigne 'injury, damage, wrong, etc.'; cognate to maim)^[1] is a common law criminal offence consisting of the intentional maiming of another person.

Under the law of England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions, it originally consisted of the intentional and wanton removal of a body part that would handicap a person's ability to defend themselves in combat. Under the strict common law definition, initially this required damage to an eye or a limb, while cutting off an ear or the nose was not deemed to be sufficiently disabling. In the many years since, the meaning of the crime expanded to encompass any type of mutilation, disfigurement, or crippling act done using any instrument.

Is this this case of mayhem in "mann heim", (literally translated as "man home"; which in a broader sense is not merely a city in Germany, or just Germany, but the Earth) a sign of the times?

See also:

The events are terrible, and disturbing, but all counted it is not a lot of people who are killed or injured compared to the global statistics for traffic related deaths. This Wiki has:

One could also compare it with the global murder rates per 100,000 by country:

Or the suicide rates:

Reader Comments

Psstoffgoy · 2025-03-05T08:34:55Z

Prosecutors have initiated investigative proceedings against the suspect, a 40-year-old German man from the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on two counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder.

AKA, an immigrant on a crime spree holiday in Europe. The usual, no pictures of him, no description, same story on every MSM site.

Gabriel · 2025-03-05T11:43:11Z

Psstoffgoy codis

The suspect was later identified as Alexander Scheuermann, a 40-year-old German citizen from Ludwigshafen, two sources close to the investigation told ABC News.

This is according to another MSM outlet.

As we know, the truth is never reported on MSM. It is either complete lies, or a twisted version of the truth.

When it comes to these type of killings, you can expect the usual agenda from the media:

1. If it's an immigrant, their identity is witheld for as long as possible, and they are reported as a "national".

2. If it's a white person/a national, they are reported as a right-wing extremist, a lone wolf, or terrorist but they are usually named and pictured quickly.

3. If it is a tranny/LBGTQXYZ, this is also normally hidden for as long as possible by MSM, and will often take some digging before it becomes known. The reports usually just say the individual was "mentally unstable" etc.

Either way, they report in a way that runs rings around the truth, and push a narative as much as they can. Then it's on to the next one.

There is a lot more to it of course. Let's not forget the flase flags and the people used by the alphabet agencies.

Gabriel · 2025-03-05T12:05:45Z

Gabriel To add one more, let's not forget the use of the (usually poorly written) "manifestos".

codis · 2025-03-05T12:41:51Z

Gabriel Tried a short search, without much to show.

The name is not uncommon in Germany, there are a lot of hits that seem irrelevant.

Although one of the first hits was a Fakebook profile which is "temporarily disabled" ...

codis · 2025-03-05T09:18:03Z

Prosecutors have initiated investigative proceedings against the suspect, a 40-year-old German man from the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate, ...

I suppose that means only that he holds a German passport, or a valid residence permit. As @Psstoffgoy suggest, no further information. They have something to hide, I think ...

Is this this case of mayhem in "mann heim", (literally translated as "man home"; which in a broader sense is not merely a city in Germany, or just Germany, but the Earth) a sign of the times?

Well, ...

Wackopedia states (first from the German, then the English page):

Das Dorf Mannenheim (= Heim des Manno) wurde im Jahr 766 erstmals im Lorscher Codex urkundlich erwähnt.[18]

The name is interpreted as "the home of Manno", a short form of a Germanic name such as Hartmann or Hermann.[26] Mannheim remained a mere village throughout the Middle Ages.

So, no. I don't see any special meaning in the place of attack and name of the city.

And having been there years ago, I would under no circumstances want to live there ...

thorbiorn · 2025-03-05T23:37:06Z

The name is interpreted as "the home of Manno", a short form of a Germanic name such as Hartmann or Hermann.[26]

Interesting, and when one looks up the meaning for the two names, there is:

Hartmann: [Link] "The name originates from the Germanic word, "hart", which translates in English to "hardy", "hard", or "tough" and "Mann", a suffix meaning "man", "person", or "husband"."

Herman: [Link] "Herman is a masculine given name, from an ancient Germanic name consisting of the elements harja- "army" and mann- "man". Hermine is the feminine form of Herman.[1] It is first recorded in the 8th century, in the forms Hariman, Heriman, Hairman, Herman.[2]"

codis · 2025-03-06T06:34:17Z

thorbiorn

Herman: [Link] "Herman is a masculine given name, from an ancient Germanic name consisting of the elements harja- "army" and mann- "man" ...

"Her" in this context is an old germanic term for army. In German, it is still "Heer".

Thus "Herman" would refer to a professional soldier.

Demore · 2025-03-05T11:58:04Z

I find interesting that the muder and suicide rates are inversely proportional to each other in just about all of the countries. All of them . I wonder why that is.