Trier (dpa) - After a car driver ran amok in Trier with five dead and several injured, the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, expressed his "deep shock".

"In this hour of speechlessness and grief, I am connected to the victims, the deceased, the injured and the relatives," he said on Tuesday evening.

“And I think of all those who witnessed this crime up close.

As a former Trier, the disturbing images from the city center leave me with anger, horror and deep sadness. "