The center of Limburg, in western Germany, was cordoned off by the police on the evening of Monday, October 7, after a truck stole a man who then hit several vehicles in a few hundred meters before being stopped, an act with still obscure motivations.

"We do not have enough information on the context," the police summarized in the evening, while several testimonies collected by the local press evoke the erratic behavior of the suspect.

According to the police, "a man" seized a local heavyweight at about 5:20 pm in the city center, to stamp a few more cars waiting at the traffic lights at the courthouse, causing the transport to take place. the hospital several wounded. Himself touched in the accident, the suspect was arrested and then treated.

In the late evening, the white semitrailer was still on flower beds separating the two-way three-way, the bumper recessed, while the tow trucks cleared nine accident vehicles including a van, found the AFP on the spot .

"We do not exclude absolutely anything"

The German news agency DPA in turn evokes 17 wounded including the suspect, including a "in critical condition", quoting a spokesman for the regional police. The local daily Frankfurter Neue Presse reports that six people were hospitalized and 11 light wounded were able to return home.

"We do not exclude absolutely nothing," said the spokesman quoted by DPA, questioned about the possibility of a terrorist attack in this city of 35,000 inhabitants. At this point, the police insists in his statement, "the investigation continues, with the hearing of witnesses and the gathering of evidence".

Quoted by the Frankfurter Neue Presse, the usual driver of the truck says he saw a man in his thirties, bearded with short hair, his gaze "fixed and perhaps under the influence of drugs" open the door his vehicle then stopped. "I asked him: what do you want from me?" But he did not say a word, I asked him the question, and he pulled me out of the truck, "says the employee. a logistics firm, who says he ran behind his machine.

"No guesswork, please"

After the collision occurred a few hundred meters away, the suspect was surrounded by a group of joggers, nose and bloody hands and pants torn, told witnesses daily.

"No guesswork, please," hammered the regional police department, calling on all the witnesses and photo and video holders useful to the investigation to come forward.

German authorities are on the alert after several jihadist attacks in recent years. The deadliest was in December 2016, when Tunisian Anis Amri stormed a Berlin Christmas market with a stolen truck, killing twelve people. In April, the boss of the Interior Intelligence estimated that 2,240 Islamists with a "terrorist potential" lived in Germany.

With AFP